Commonwealth v. Henderson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the trial court properly determined that defendant's prior convictions for theft and robbery were admissible to impeach his credibility in a rape case, because the convictions were recent and were highly pertinent to the defendant's veracity and credibility
• “[T]he race, creed, national origin, sex or other similar characteristics of a venireman may be proper considerations in exercising peremptory challenges ....”
• declines to curtail or disturb the right to peremptory challenges
• prior convictions for theft are crimen falsi

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 593×
• State v. Neil
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-09-27· cited 507×
• People v. Williams
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1983-05-27· cited 322×
• Commonwealth v. Fulton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-08-19· cited 285×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson, W., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-06-20· cited 264×
• People v. Davis
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1983-02-18· cited 208×
• Sistrunk v. Vaughn
  Third Circuit· 1996-09-19· cited 162×
• Commonwealth v. Kyle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-20· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Morales
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-18· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Trivigno
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-24· cited 83×
• Nevius v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1985-05-20· cited 70×
• People v. Teague
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-08-30· cited 69×
• Fields v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-02-17· cited 62×
• State v. Wiley
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-04-23· cited 60×
• People v. Jones
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-05-13· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-20· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Noel, H., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-11-21· cited 44×
• Lawrence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-03-24· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. LaMassa
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-15· cited 28×
• Gilliard v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1983-10-03· cited 27×

Cites

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

• Yick Wo v. Hopkins
  Supreme Court· 1886-05-10· cited 3,789×
• Swain v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-08· cited 3,183×
• Duren v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-09· cited 2,373×
• People v. Wheeler
  California Supreme Court· 1978-09-25· cited 1,612×
• Lewis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1892-12-05· cited 760×
• Commonwealth v. Soares
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-03-08· cited 576×
• Virginia v. Rives
  Supreme Court· 1880-03-18· cited 532×
• Commonwealth v. Kloiber
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-06-28· cited 530×
• Cassell v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1950-04-24· cited 516×
• Commonwealth v. Bighum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 319×
• Frazier v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-01-03· cited 305×
• Stilson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1919-11-10· cited 288×
• Commonwealth v. Lopinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-09-26· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. Petrakovich
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-12-05· cited 145×
• Commonwealth v. Sparrow
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 134×
• Commonwealth v. Roots
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Bethea
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-28· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. England
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-07-08· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Bruno
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 106×
• United States v. Alessandrello, Gaetano, in No. 79-2654. Appeal of Lacognata, Salvatore, in No. 79-2699
  Third Circuit· 1980-11-21· cited 103×