Commonwealth v. Cannon

How courts have described this case

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

• “The determination of whether a confession is the product of a rational intellect necessitates our consideration of the totality of the circumstances.”
• evidence of the defendant’s schizophrenia did not prevent him from making a knowing, intelligent statement during a confession
• Roberts, X, dissenting, joined by Pomeroy and Manderino, JJ.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

35 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. O'SEARO
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 219×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-05-02· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Fahy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-21· cited 120×
• Commonwealth v. England
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-07-08· cited 119×
• Leroy Brown v. Julius T. Cuyler, Supt., at S.C.I.G.
  Third Circuit· 1982-01-29· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Gibson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-17· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Rawles
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-01· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Cain
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 70×
• United States ex rel. Matthews v. Johnson
  Third Circuit· 1974-08-15· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 48×
• State v. Russell
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1975-06-05· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Cunningham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-12-23· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. London
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Cephas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-04· cited 29×
• State v. Rocheleau
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1973-12-04· cited 28×
• State v. Olivera
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1976-10-28· cited 26×

Cites

32 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Townsend v. Sain
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 4,485×
• Blackburn v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1960-01-11· cited 1,191×
• Davis v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 986×
• Lynumn v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-25· cited 792×
• Commonwealth v. Matthews
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-29· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Hoffman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-07-02· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-12-31· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Kenney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-30· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Winebrenner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-04-28· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Holton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-10-11· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-07-02· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Ewing
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-04-22· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Frazier
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-06-04· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Pavillard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-06-24· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Abrams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-06-28· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Kellyon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1923-06-23· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Pearson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 46×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Gaito v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-06-24· cited 42×