Commonwealth v. Herman

How courts have described this case

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

• noting “the sound tenet of jurisprudence that courts should avoid constitutional issues when the issue at hand may be decided upon other grounds”
• stating “if a statute is susceptible of two reasonable constructions, one of which would - 12 - J-A21035-24 raise constitutional difficulties and the other of which would not, we adopt the latter construction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Com. v. Pitt, W.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-03-27· cited 23×
• Com. v. Harris, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-01-03· cited 20×
• Com. v. Goodco Mechanical, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-02-28· cited 20×
• Com. v. White, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-01-14· cited 14×
• Com. v. Hayes, G.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-12-02· cited 7×
• Com. v. McCormick, E.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-09-17· cited 5×
• Com. v. Brensinger, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-08-30· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Peters, A., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-10-31
• Rohland, W., Aplt. v. Business Office, DOC
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-03-26
• Commonwealth v. Moore, I., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-03-25
• The Com. of PA v. The A.G. of the Com. of PA
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-01-26
• Com. of PA v. K.A. Rensel
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-05-03
• Commonwealth v. Dunkins, A., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-11-17
• M.B. Henry v. T. Wolf, Gov. of PA & The General Assembly
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-06-23
• T. Dockery v. T. Wolf, Gov. of PA
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-07-09
• Com. v. Worzel, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-12-18
• In the Int. of: K.O., Appeal of: K.O.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-12-09

Cites

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

• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2015-06-26· cited 5,137×
• Grayned v. City of Rockford
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 4,586×
• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-03· cited 3,694×
• Kolender v. Lawson
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-02· cited 3,306×
• Connally v. General Construction Co.
  Supreme Court· 1926-01-04· cited 3,272×
• Screws v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1945-05-07· cited 2,023×
• Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 1,862×
• Smith v. Goguen
  Supreme Court· 1974-03-25· cited 1,514×
• Staples v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-05-23· cited 1,491×
• Welch v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2016-04-18· cited 1,417×
• Lanzetta v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1939-03-27· cited 1,416×
• Hill v. Colorado
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-28· cited 1,399×
• City of Chicago v. Morales
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-10· cited 1,379×
• Maynard v. Cartwright
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,367×
• Ratzlaf v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-01-11· cited 1,218×
• Colautti v. Franklin
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-09· cited 971×
• Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2012-06-21· cited 916×
• Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-28· cited 770×
• Nash v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1913-06-09· cited 749×