Commonwealth v. Charleston

How courts have described this case

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

• '“[A] witness to corroborate appellant’s alibi would have been the single most important possible addition to appellant’s defense.' ” (Citation omitted)
• \`[A] witness to corroborate appellant's alibi would have been the single most important possible addition to appellant's defense.'\ (Citation omitted)
• where conviction based almost exclusively upon the credibility of the complaining witness, alibi witness’ testimony “may have cast a shadow on [the victim’s] truthfulness” rendering counsel ineffective for failing to produce said alibi witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. McKendrick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-08-18· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Maddox
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-10· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Rhodes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-07· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-18· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Stokes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-19· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Stoner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-13· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Beaver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-15· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. McCaskill
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-10-21· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-02-26· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Blackwell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-18· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-09· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Iverson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-14· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Helvy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-13· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Tabas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-12· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Payne
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Mitchell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-28· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Beckham
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-13