Commonwealth v. Griffin

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that crux of waiver doctrine is that issues not raised below in a timely manner are “foreclosed for purposes of appellate review” and “in a timely manner requires contemporaneous objection”
• references to Muslim religion were properly admitted to demonstrate existence of strong common bond among appellant, his co-defendants, decedent and witnesses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-10-18· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Gemelli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-03-23· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Riggins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-24· cited 30×
• Tice v. Nationwide Life Insurance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-06· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-01-07· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Booth
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-06-12· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Monroe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-04-26· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Curry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-02· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Folino
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-18· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Fawcett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-02· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Mokluk
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-23· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Zabala
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-11· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Myer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-08· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Scaine
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-31· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Myers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-02-05· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Liverpool
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-05· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-12· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Burgess
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-10-07· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Ryan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-11-18· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Andrasik
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 1992-11-09

Cites

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

• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Simmons v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-03-18· cited 6,700×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Commonwealth v. Wable
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-05-23· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. Goosby
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 179×
• Commonwealth v. Gilman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Fortune
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-30· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Fowler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-01-05· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Gaddy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 75×
• Gordon v. Rhay
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Deitch Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-10-04· cited 69×
• United States ex rel. Jackson v. Martin
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Bennett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Terry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-07-07· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Mimms
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Roach
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Ramsey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-20· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Pritchitt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Chuck
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-03· cited 22×