Commonwealth v. Dennis

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “trial courts should be given the opportunity to correct an error and conserve judicial resources.”
• stating waiver rule, that issue may not be raised for the first time on appeal, “applies with equal force to the Municipal Court of Philadelphia”
• “[I]f appellate courts were to consider issues not raised in the trial court, then the trial would become a dress rehearsal ....”
• “[T]rial courts should be given the opportunity to correct an error and conserve judicial resources.”
• “[I]f appellate courts were to consider issues not raised in the trial court, then the trial would become a dress rehearsal ....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Burns
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-12-20· cited 148×
• Krentz v. Consolidated Rail Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-21· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Lawson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-11-09· cited 74×
• ABG Promotions v. Parkway Publishing, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-10-09· cited 41×
• Moranko, F. v. Downs Racing
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-06-10· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Douglass
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-06· cited 19×
• Magette v. Goodman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-03-06· cited 4×
• Com. v. Golding, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-02-20

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 817×
• Tagnani v. Lew
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-03-13· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Speights
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-04-03· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Frazier
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-02-10· cited 12×