Commonwealth v. Cobbs

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that variations in officers’ identification testimony elicited during a civil case deposition after the criminal trial was completed satisfied the after-discovered exception because “it could not have been discovered prior to or at the trial.”
• new trial granted after two police officers identified the petitioner at trial but testified at later civil depositions that they could not identify the petitioner

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Medina
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-05-28· cited 250×
• Commonwealth v. Loner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-10-22· cited 230×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-12· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-26· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Bormack
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-06-16· cited 13×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Small
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-01· cited 320×
• Commonwealth v. Morales
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-09-17· cited 316×
• Commonwealth v. Valderrama
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-24· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Bronshtein
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-06-19· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-17· cited 20×