Commonwealth v. Frederick

How courts have described this case

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

• \It is the duty of the court to clarify issues for the jury[.]\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Stidham v. Millvale Sportsmen's Club
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-13· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. Cottam
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-17· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Gordon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-30· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Litzenberger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-07· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Austin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-04-27· cited 36×
• Western Pennsylvania Socialist Workers 1982 Campaign v. Connecticut General Life Insurance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-18· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Scales
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-13· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Hartz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-01· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-04-23· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Sweger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-26· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Reed
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-12-06· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-28· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Alarie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-09-19· cited 17×
• State v. Davis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2007-07-25· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Kale
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-08-10· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Hollihan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-09-28· cited 2×
• Com. v. Mead, J., Jr.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-11-01· cited 1×
• Com. v. Pratt, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-04-17

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Hubbard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 854×
• Commonwealth v. Riggins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-08-17· cited 471×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 242×
• Commonwealth v. Yount
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 177×
• Commonwealth v. Sparrow
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 134×
• Commonwealth v. Hudson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-30· cited 128×
• Commonwealth v. Tate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-02· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Boone
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-30· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Archambault
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Woodward
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-11-18· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Yost
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Lesher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-03· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Martinez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-01· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Gardner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Cannon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Cornish
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Powers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Batty
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-27· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Nahodil
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-07-07· cited 43×