Commonwealth v. Edwards

How courts have described this case

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

• even though defendant admitted crime, failure to give jury not guilty verdict required new trial
• court held fundamental error when trial judge ruled out the possibility of a not guilty verdict because the defendant admitted the offense but pled insanity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Commonwealth v. Ali
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-12-29· cited 675×
• State v. Hutchinson
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-02-25· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Huffman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-11· cited 92×
• State v. Braley
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1960-09-14· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-31· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Saxton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-15· cited 43×
• Harry William Braley v. Clarence T. Gladden, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 1968-12-24· cited 28×
• Dyke v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1986-04-01· cited 25×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Theodore Ross v. Gayle Franzen, Director, Department of Corrections, Dennis Wolff, Warden, Joliet Correctional Center
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-01-13· cited 20×
• Pueblo v. Reyes Acevedo
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1972-05-15· cited 18×
• State v. Knorr
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1996-07-02· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Conklin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-05-04· cited 11×
• State v. Somerset
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1981-04-21· cited 10×
• United States ex rel. Ross v. Franzen
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-09-24· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Shoats
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-07-01· cited 5×
• Solomon v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-12-17· cited 3×
• United States v. Franzen
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-09-24
• People v. Reyes Acevedo
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1972-05-15

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Kloiber
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-06-28· cited 530×
• Commonwealth v. Donough
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-03-25· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Patskin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-01-05· cited 70×