Commonwealth v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• that “the verdict is contrary to the weight of the evidence” is a proper ground for relief in a motion for a new trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-10· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Vogel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-27· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Rawles
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-01· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Cardona
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-15· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-03-04· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-20· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Dungan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-02-11· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Kirkman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-09· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Gaither
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-08-11· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Driver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-31· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Combs
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-30· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Graeff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-12· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Monserrat
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1995-08-28
• Commonwealth v. Mita
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1986-10-30

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Blair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 461×
• Commonwealth v. Farquharson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 388×
• Commonwealth v. Blevins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Meadows
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Froelich
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Terenda
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-04-23· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Dennison
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-01-07· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Vogel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 15×