Commonwealth v. Gibson

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that, where there is substantial aggravation, it may be particularly difficult to grove.Strickland prejudice
• finding additional mitigating evidence would not have caused a juror to alter his or her vote where powerful aggravating evidence was offered
• finding additional mitigating evidence would not have caused a juror to alter his or her vote where powerful aggravating evidence was offered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Mason, L., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-12-29· cited 619×
• Commonwealth v. Koehler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-01-20· cited 580×
• Commonwealth v. Chmiel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-11-09· cited 553×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-10-17· cited 303×
• Commonwealth v. Sepulveda
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-11-28· cited 299×
• Commonwealth v. Tharp
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-24· cited 187×
• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-06-26· cited 186×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-27· cited 167×
• Commonwealth v. Bomar, A., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-11-21· cited 147×
• Commonwealth v. Padilla
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-31· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Watkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-29· cited 106×
• Commonwealth, Aplt v. Pelzer, K.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-30· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson, C., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-30· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Weimer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-07· cited 86×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Crispell, D.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-09-21· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Sepulveda, M., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-08-15· cited 73×
• Commonwealth, Aplt v. Bardo, M.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-16· cited 72×
• Commonwealth, Aplt v. Hackett, R.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-18· cited 27×
• Commonwealth, Aplt v. Daniels, H.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-30
• Commonwealth v. Pelzer, K., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-30

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 5,961×
• Montana v. Egelhoff
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-13· cited 816×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-21· cited 416×
• Commonwealth v. Lesko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-24· cited 398×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-08-17· cited 308×
• Commonwealth v. Gibson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-24· cited 258×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-29· cited 256×
• Smith v. Spisak
  Supreme Court· 2010-01-12· cited 199×
• Commonwealth v. Malloy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-01· cited 183×
• Commonwealth v. Rios
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-18· cited 173×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-07-06· cited 149×
• Commonwealth v. Flor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-07-22· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Sneed
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-06-19· cited 144×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-09· cited 134×
• Commonwealth v. Fahy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-21· cited 120×
• State v. Bey
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1992-07-28· cited 115×
• Commonwealth v. Gibson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-01-22· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-04-18· cited 100×