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.

• noting that character evidence for non-violence is pertinent in a prosecution for murder
• defendant was prejudiced by trial counsel’s failure to call available character witnesses at all
• “[e]vidence of good character is to be regarded as evidence of substantive fact just as any other evidence tending to establish innocence and may be considered … in connection with all the evidence presented in the case on the general issue of guilt or innocence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Buterbaugh
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-05-13· cited 510×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-10· cited 336×
• Commonwealth v. Kennedy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-12-06· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Kouma
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-29· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-15· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Hull
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-10-16· cited 47×
• Com. v. Alceus, F.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-05-08· cited 16×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-27· cited 120×
• Commonwealth v. Weiss
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-18· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-22· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Luther
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-15· cited 85×
• Hussein v. Raban Supply Co.
  Supreme Court· 1996-10-21· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Gillespie
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-01-06· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Fowler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-06-01· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Boyd
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-05· cited 5×