Commonwealth v. Garland

How courts have described this case

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

• noting “may” can mean the same as “shall,” where a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake of justice, however, is ordinarily used in the permissive sense
• noting \may\ can mean same as \shall\
• noting “may” can mean same as “shall”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Fox v. Swing
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-11-28· cited 84×
• Zimmerman v. O'BANNON
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-11· cited 82×
• Davis v. Sulcowe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-12-03· cited 51×
• Merscorp, Inc. v. Del. Cnty.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-26· cited 34×
• A. Scott Enterprises v. City of Allentown, Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-07-19· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Lutz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-17· cited 27×
• Kerr v. Borough of Union City
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-12· cited 12×
• Waros v. Borough of Vandergrift
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-01· cited 4×
• Felix v. Wax
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1958-05-29· cited 3×
• Horsham Township Election
  Montgomery County Court of Quarter Sessions· 1966-05-24· cited 1×
• MERSCORP v. Delaware Co., Aplts.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-26
• Commonwealth v. Moehring
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-04-17
• Schindler Elevator Corp. v. Dept. of L&I
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-10-18
• City of Phila. and PMA Mgmt. Corp v. Bell (WCAB)
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-04-02
• Coleman, J. v. Parkland School District, Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-11-24

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Osborn v. Bank of United States
  Supreme Court· 1824-03-19· cited 1,899×
• Fairmont Aluminum Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
  Fourth Circuit· 1955-05-18· cited 121×
• General Investment Co. v. New York Central Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1926-05-24· cited 66×
• Walling v. Miller
  Eighth Circuit· 1943-11-09· cited 64×
• Dean v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1921-04-13· cited 28×
• State Department of Public Welfare v. Bland
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1953-06-23· cited 20×