Commonwealth v. Cephas

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that defendant’s schizophrenia rendered him unable to knowingly and voluntarily waive his Miranda rights
• invalid waiver where defendant was incapable of comprehending the meaning of the Miranda warnings at the time he was interrogated
• Miranda waiver was not made knowingly and intelligently where the defendant’s schizophrenia was manifested during the interrogation by his kicking of walls, yelling of “inane comments,” and “childlike behavior”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. DiStefano
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-08-16· cited 268×
• Commonwealth v. Knox
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-07-16· cited 172×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-07-30· cited 146×
• In the Interest of T.B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-10-26· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Logan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-18· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-05-14· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Britcher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-08-10· cited 22×
• Forster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2010-07-30· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Lukach
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-04-11· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-12-16· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-12-03· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Karper
  Carbon County Court of Common Pleas· 2007-12-05

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Colorado v. Connelly
  Supreme Court· 1986-12-10· cited 4,016×
• Moran v. Burbine
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-10· cited 3,339×
• Colorado v. Spring
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-27· cited 1,070×
• Commonwealth v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-09· cited 417×
• Tague v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-21· cited 219×
• Commonwealth v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-10· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Scarborough
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Cannon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Neely
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-23· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Glover
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-20· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Hackney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-06-03· cited 11×
• State v. Dailey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-12-16· cited 4×