Commonwealth v. Fernandez

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant not prejudiced by witness’ statement that was neither intentionally elicited nor exploited by the prosecutor
• not error for trial court to require defendant to shave his beard so as to facilitate identification by Commonwealth witness
• a defendant can be compelled to shave his beard for identification by a witness
• privilege against self-incrimination afforded by Fifth Amendment of United States Constitution and Article I, Section 9 of Pennsylvania Constitution excludes only evidence that is testimonial in nature not incriminating demonstrative or physical evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lyons
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-22· cited 520×
• Commonwealth v. Poindexter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-25· cited 78×
• People v. Hampton
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1988-06-13· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Conway
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-23· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Bruder
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-21· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Vazquez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-16· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Hayes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-17· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-05-16· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Zimmerman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-02· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Anthony
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-19· cited 11×
• McDonough v. COM., DEPT. OF TRANSP.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-12-29· cited 9×
• People v. Rosado
  New York Supreme Court· 1992-02-13· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Peth
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-18· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Barud
  Alleghany County Court of Common Pleas· 1994-09-19

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Schmerber v. California
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 6,067×
• Washington v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,395×
• Rochin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-02· cited 3,286×
• Williams v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 1,740×
• Wardius v. Oregon
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-11· cited 827×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 242×
• United States v. Robert Joseph Satterfield
  Ninth Circuit· 1978-03-22· cited 99×
• Luis Albert Alicea v. John R. Gagnon, Superintendent, and the Attorney General of Wisconsin
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-04-14· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 78×
• United States v. Lamb
  Tenth Circuit· 1978-05-17· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Seigrist
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-13· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Vecchiolli
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-11-17· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Craft
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-26· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Krasner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-03-06· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Tome
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Richbourg
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-11-22· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Urbina
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-08-21· cited 14×
• Andrews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-10-28· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Oglesby
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-25· cited 13×