Commonwealth v. Clayton

How courts have described this case

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

• admitting subsequent bad act evidence of a shooting where the offenses were substantially similar, and stating that “the time span of four months between the two incidents [does not] render this evidence inadmissible in view of the numerous similarities between the incidents.”
• admitting subsequent bad act evidence of a shooting where the offenses were substantially similar, and stating that “the time span of four months between the two incidents [does not] render this evidence inadmissible in view of the numerous similarities between the incidents.”
• mere fact that one crime resulted in wounding rather than death would not vitiate admissibility under exception
• mere fact that one crime resulted in wounding rather than death would not vitiate admissibility under exception
• attempted murder properly admitted at trial for murder committed three months earlier where crimes were strikingly similar in geographic location, motivation to rob drug-dealing victims, and method of executing crime
• attempted murder properly admitted at trial for murder committed three months earlier where crimes were strikingly similar in geographic location, motivation to rob drug-dealing victims, and method of executing crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Hughes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-13· cited 237×
• Commonwealth v. Buehl
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-04-30· cited 203×
• Commonwealth v. Weakley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-04-17· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-25· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Hicks, C., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-03-28· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Rush
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-23· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Clayton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Judd
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-04-12· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Gill, R., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-03-26· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Clayton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-15· cited 57×
• Com. v. Cosby Jr., W.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-12-10· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Howard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-06-06· cited 28×
• Com. v. Knupp, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-02-22· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Sparks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-10· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Nocero
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-11-16· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-17· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Norman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-31· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Boyle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-05-02· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Middleton
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1987-12-02
• Commonwealth v. Brothers
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-09-23

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Commonwealth v. Wable
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-05-23· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 168×
• Commonwealth v. Fortune
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-30· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Daniels
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-27· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Beasley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-28· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Shively
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-01-30· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Rose
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-01-24· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Styles
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-08· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 12×