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.

• giving of a “no-adverse-inference” jury instruction regarding the defendant’s failure to testify at trial over defendant’s objection
• “defendant and his or her counsel [may] determine that the fundamental right to remain silent is best served by not drawing attention to defendant’s silence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Baumhammers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-20· cited 216×
• Commonwealth v. Howard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-08· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-06-19· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Trivigno
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-24· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-29· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Perez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-29· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-28· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-12-23· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-15· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-09-23· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Sneeringer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-29· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-03-30· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Stanley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-08-07· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-11· cited 16×
• Lawrence Gaines v. Superintendent Benner Township
  Third Circuit· 2022-05-12· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Khamphouseane
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-21· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-27· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Fanase
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-11-30· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-17· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor, N., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-05-19

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Dennis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1966-10-10· cited 1,055×
• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• Lakeside v. Oregon
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-22· cited 380×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-23· cited 137×
• Rivera v. Philadelphia Theological Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-03-14· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Dravecz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-03-21· cited 106×
• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-05· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Bricker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-21· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-31· cited 60×
• State v. Kimball
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1970-05-05· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-06· cited 47×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1966-01-24· cited 42×
• People v. Molano
  California Court of Appeal· 1967-08-24· cited 39×
• Hardaway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-09-05· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Buiel
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-04-26· cited 29×
• State v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-09-30· cited 28×
• Priest v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1979-03-09· cited 26×
• People v. Hampton
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1975-07-23· cited 24×
• State v. Garcia
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1972-10-13· cited 21×