Commonwealth v. English

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing that a party must object to errors, improprieties or irregularities at the earliest possible stage to afford the trial judge the first occasion to remedy the wrong and possibly avoid an unnecessary appeal to complain of the matter
• stating defendant’s “choice having been made to forego inquiry of any possible jury taint cannot be resurrected in either the post- verdict or appellate format”
• District Attorney and not trial court has the sole discretion to decide what offenses to charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Strunk
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-09· cited 107×
• Hong v. Pelagatti
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-12-06· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Larsen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-08-05· cited 44×
• Boucher v. Pennsylvania Hospital
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-07-31· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. English
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-07-23· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Galloway
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-04-10· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Schierscher
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-11-30· cited 14×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Oregon v. Kennedy
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 2,097×
• Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 817×
• Commonwealth v. Clair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 732×
• Paden v. Baker Concrete Construction, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-16· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. Powell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-05-01· cited 93×
• Beal v. Reading Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-04-01· cited 57×
• Echon v. Pennsylyania Railroad
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-11-13· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Slick
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-25· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Beaver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-15· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Tumminello
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-11-20· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Tyson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-12-15· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Morrison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-19· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Watts
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-02-08· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Agnew
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-02-15· cited 12×
• In Re Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of the Pennsylvania State University
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-04· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Kramer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-11-28· cited 10×