Commonwealth v. Fowler

How courts have described this case

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

• construing similar language in a prior rule
• construing similar language in a prior rule
• plurality opinion of Nix, J.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Blackwell v. Com. State Ethics Com'n
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-28· cited 166×
• Commonwealth v. Morris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-04-20· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-29· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. McDermott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-09-23· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Geschwendt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-31· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Zapata
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Ernst
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-01· cited 38×
• State v. Wassillie
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-02-29· cited 33×
• Burgess v. Roth
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1975-01-09· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Bonaparte
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-03· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Wharton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-24· cited 17×
• State v. Flowers
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1974-12-02· cited 12×
• Tunnell v. Wiley
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1974-01-02· cited 6×
• State v. Patel
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2017-11-14· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Cabeza
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-30· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Hollenbach
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-06-24· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Woomer
  Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-03-10· cited 1×
• State v. P
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2017-11-14
• Commonwealth v. Dankel
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 1973-06-05
• Commonwealth v. Lee, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-03-26

Cites

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

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Commonwealth v. Hamilton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-22· cited 220×
• Commonwealth v. Bradley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-09-07· cited 101×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Bryant v. Hendrick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-08-02· cited 95×
• Norman J. Mastrian v. Kermit Hedman, Ramsey County Sheriff, and the State of Minnesota
  Eighth Circuit· 1964-03-30· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Truesdale
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-17· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Sharpe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-10-04· cited 74×
• Floyd Bloss v. People of the State of Michigan, James K. Miller and Ronald Parsons
  Sixth Circuit· 1970-02-17· cited 45×
• Templeton Appeal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-03-22· cited 44×
• Coppage v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-04-18· cited 40×
• United States Ex Rel. Stephen Fink v. Louis Heyd, Criminal Sheriff of the Parish of Orleans
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-03-07· cited 33×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Alberti v. Boyle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-11-12· cited 32×
• United States Ex Rel. Fink v. Heyd
  E.D. Louisiana· 1968-07-30· cited 29×
• Reading Co. v. Willow Development Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-05-21· cited 20×
• Foster Sellers v. State of Georgia
  Fifth Circuit· 1967-03-06· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Caye
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Keller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-01-15· cited 11×
• United States ex rel. Klein v. Deegan
  S.D. New York· 1968-07-16· cited 8×
• United States Ex Rel. England v. Anderson
  D. Delaware· 1972-08-18· cited 5×