Commonwealth v. Hudson

How courts have described this case

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

• “Counsel’s determination of the tactical content of an effective closing argument is necessarily a matter of trial strategy.”
• “The essence of advocacy is to select in light of the evidence and trial atmosphere what may be conceded and to challenge what counsel’s judgment indicates may best advance his client’s interests.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Dancer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 407×
• Commonwealth v. Charleston
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-06· cited 278×
• Commonwealth v. Wholaver, E., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-01-11· cited 267×
• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 264×
• Commonwealth v. Peterkin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-12· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-24· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Pope
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-25· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. McCloud
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-29· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-11-26· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Monte
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-11-22· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Crawford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-03-06· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Savage
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-01· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-18· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Romeri
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-08-08· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Whyatt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-06-24· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Hosack
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Betrand
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 20×
• People v. Shamlodhiya
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2013-02-26· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Swint
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Ashburn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 11×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Commonwealth v. Kenney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-30· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Archambault
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. McGrogan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-30· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Koch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-20· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Speller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Motley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Roach
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Nole
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Berry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-10-09· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Lovett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-03-18· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-01-15· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Boone
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Laboy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-11-12· cited 6×