Commonwealth v. Colon

How courts have described this case

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

• “In the former situation, the determination is practically one of law and as such is subject to ordinary review.”
• police officer's occupational relationship with non-party law enforcement organization insufficient to constitute real or close relationship with case participant that compelled exclusion from jury as a matter of law
• juror’s mere status as law enforcement officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Colson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-04· cited 180×
• Commonwealth v. Pander
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-17· cited 153×
• Parker v. Children's Hospital of Phila.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-11-01· cited 126×
• State v. Beckett
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-12-16· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Hale
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-06· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Rough
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-13· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Akers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-30· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Stamm
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-20· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-07· cited 50×
• Schwarzbach v. Dunn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-28· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Ingram
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-05-22· cited 45×
• Shinal, M., et ux, Aplts. v. Toms M.D., S.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-20· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Short
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-13· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Penn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-02-01· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Lee
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-01-30· cited 38×
• Pursell v. Horn
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 2002-02-01· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Sheaff
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-08-28· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Bright
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-13· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Fields
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-29· cited 25×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Commonwealth v. Kravitz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-04-18· cited 174×
• John Mikus v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1970-11-06· cited 98×
• United States of America, Ex Rel. Silvio De Vita v. Lloyd W. McCorkle Principal Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey
  Third Circuit· 1957-11-12· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-10-04· cited 79×
• Tate v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1952-05-05· cited 75×
• State v. Reese
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1967-01-16· cited 58×
• Joseph R. Jackson v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1968-04-10· cited 54×
• Cavness v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1951-04-12· cited 51×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Fletcher v. Cavell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-03-20· cited 47×
• David I. Sims v. United States of America, Ronald D. Smith v. United States of America, David Reed v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1968-11-15· cited 41×
• United States of America Ex Rel. James Morris Fletcher v. Angelo C. Cavell, Warden, Western State Penitentiary, Pittsburgh 33, Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 1961-02-23· cited 23×
• Cash v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1968-11-21· cited 17×
• Wallis v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1955-10-11· cited 16×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1967-01-06· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Cephas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-11-14· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Schartner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-04-10· cited 1×