Commonwealth v. Cain

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that any uncertainty in identification testimony is question of weight rather than sufficiency where two witnesses identified defendant as assailant in separate photographic arrays and preliminary hearing even though they expressed doubt at trial
• declining to address the sufficiency of evidence supporting every element where a defendants challenged only identification evidence
• declining -6- J-S56042-19 to address the sufficiency of evidence supporting every element where an appellant challenges identification evidence
• declining to address the sufficiency of the evidence supporting every element of an offense where the appellant raises a claim relating to one specific element
• declining to address the sufficiency of the evidence supporting every element of an offense where the appellant raises a claim relating to one specific element
• declining to address the sufficiency of evidence as to every element of the crime where the appellant only challenged the identification evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-04· cited 292×
• Commonwealth v. Orr
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-12-19· cited 172×
• Commonwealth v. Bullock
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-04-28· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. Priest
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-21· cited 89×
• Com. v. Edwards, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-02-12· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Stein
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-02-07· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Sloan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-12· cited 8×
• Constantine, K. v. Lenox Instr. Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-09-17· cited 1×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. McAfee
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-04-27· cited 442×
• Com. v. McAfee
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-10-12· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Jacobs
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-05-01· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-11-21· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Hargrave
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-10· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Minnis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-18· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Derr
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-01-15· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Grahame
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-07· cited 11×