Commonwealth v. Howard

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming the denial of a suppression motion where the “appellant’s picture did not stand out more than the other photos and the men depicted therein all exhibited similar facial and bodily characteristics”
• disregarding the appellant’s failure to praecipe clerk of courts for entry of appealable order, “regard[ing] as done that which ought to have been done,” and proceeding to review the appellant’s claims (citations omitted and formatting altered)
• reaching merits of claim and holding that “we shall regard as done that which ought to have been done,” where appellant’s post-sentence motion was denied by operation of law and clerk of courts failed to enter an order and appellant filed within 30 days of denial
• defendant’s face is not a suppressible fruit of an illegal arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Booze
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-25· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-09-01· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Douglass
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-06· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-17· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Santiago
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-04-20· cited 9×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Crews
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-25· cited 1,151×
• New York v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-18· cited 658×
• Commonwealth v. Garvin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 218×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-08· cited 145×
• Commonwealth v. Mayhue
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-18· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Cross
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-08-14· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-20· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Marsh
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-11-16· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Stein
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-31· cited 5×