Commonwealth v. Harris

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when deciding whether to instruct on entrapment, the trial court must consider the possibility that the jury would credit the testimony of the defendant
• if a defendant presents evidence of entrapment, an entrapment instruction should be given no matter how unreasonable the court may believe the defendant’s claims to be

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Medley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-27· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-09-10· cited 14×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Stokes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-28· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-01· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. McGuire
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-22· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Clawson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Benchino
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-25· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-06-24· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Russell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-03-30· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Lebo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-06-13· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Diliberto
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-11-21· cited 1×