Commonwealth v. Harmon

How courts have described this case

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

• constitutional provisions should not “receive a technical or strained construction, but rather the words should be interpreted in their popular, natural and ordinary meaning”
• litigation of suppression motion in Municipal Court bars relitigation of same issue upon trial de novo except on a showing that the evidence was unavailable at the time of trial
• directing our interpretation of the words of the Constitution
• directing our interpretation of the words of the Constitution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Parker v. Children's Hospital of Phila.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-11-01· cited 126×
• Zemprelli v. Daniels
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-10-28· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Hayes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-01· cited 64×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Paulinski v. Isaac
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-01-24· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Monarch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-03-27· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Sample
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-18· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Metzer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-24· cited 44×
• Zemprelli v. Thornburgh
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-29· cited 41×
• Weber v. Lynch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-07-08· cited 39×
• Scarnati, J.,et al, Aplts. v. Wolf, T.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-11-22· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Oakes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Rosario
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-06· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. DeCaro
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-12· cited 28×
• Pennsylvania Prison Society v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-25· cited 27×
• Cavanaugh v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-02-11· cited 26×
• Behrend v. Bell Telephone Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 24×
• Washington, Aplts. v. Dept. of Pub. Welfare
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-07-18· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Lavern Branch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-08-21· cited 22×
• Reed v. Sloan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-01· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Anthony
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-18· cited 19×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Johnson v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 3,002×
• Colten v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 1,156×
• Ludwig v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-30· cited 183×
• United States v. Kobli
  Third Circuit· 1949-02-03· cited 146×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Edward Bennett No. H-6720 v. Alfred T. Rundle, Warden of Eastern Correctional Institute, Graterford, Pa
  Third Circuit· 1970-01-14· cited 130×
• United States v. Theron Clark
  Second Circuit· 1973-03-08· cited 128×
• Commonwealth v. DeMichel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-04-22· cited 121×
• Swenson v. Stidham
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 57×
• Moers v. City of Reading
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1853-09-08· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Sites
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Bennett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1891-10-05· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Bonser
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-11-13· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-06-21· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-03· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Harmon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-06-21· cited 2×