Commonwealth v. Ford

How courts have described this case

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

• the fact-finder can consider flight indicative of a defendant’s consciousness of guilt
• “the trial court is required to make....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-04-09· cited 181×
• Commonwealth v. Davalos
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-02· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Payson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-08· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Houtz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-07-28· cited 55×
• Jackson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-06-26· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Clyburn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-02-27· cited 33×
• State v. Thompson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-07-07· cited 30×
• United States v. Zuberi Muata Hondo, A/K/A Kevin Parker
  Fourth Circuit· 2004-04-30· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-04-03· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Magee
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-27· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Cotton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-10-12· cited 13×
• Samuel Randolph, IV v. Secretary Pennsylvania Departm
  Third Circuit· 2021-07-20· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. McDonough
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-11-29· cited 1×
• United States v. Hondo
  Fourth Circuit· 2004-04-30
• Jones v. Bhatt
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 2001-01-24
• Sawyer, S. v. Anusionwu, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-04-23

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Anders v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-08· cited 87,848×
• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Commonwealth v. Starr
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-29· cited 545×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-15· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-27· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Sullens
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-19· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Monica
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-07· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Gray
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-11· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Deemer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-21· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Liska
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-02· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Grant
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-06-21· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Sweeney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-11-13· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Huff
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-22· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Worthy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-18· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-16· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Keys
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-28· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Jorden
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-21· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Craddock
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-01-20· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Carothers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-22· cited 8×