Commonwealth v. Jackson

How courts have described this case

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

• finding trial court properly allowed defendant to be impeached with his prior conviction for robbery because robbery is deemed to be a crime that involves dishonesty
• refusing to adopt ruling in Luce v. United States, 469 U.S. 38 (1984), which provides that under Federal Rule of Evidence 609, a defendant cannot challenge a ruling permitting impeachment unless he takes the stand and is impeached
• no per se rule that prima facie case exists if prosecutor uses peremptory challenge to strike black individuals
• no per se rule that prima facie case exists if prosecutor uses peremptory challenge to strike [African-American] individuals

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-11-30· cited 292×
• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-19· cited 271×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-30· cited 169×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-06-28· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Boyles
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-29· cited 41×
• State v. Al-Amin
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-03-03· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. McEnany
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-05-13· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-08· cited 20×
• State v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-11-22· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Kilgore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-11-23· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-09· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Ulen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-04-30· cited 9×
• State of New Hampshire v. Charles Paul
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2023-11-14

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Bighum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 319×
• United States v. Janice Wallace, United States of America v. Elmore Penn
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-06-08· cited 273×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Harold S. McCLINTOCK, Defendant-Appellant
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-12-05· cited 155×
• Rivenbark v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-10· cited 129×
• Commonwealth v. Roots
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Randall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-09· cited 126×
• United States v. Linwood Gray, United States of America v. Harry L. Staley
  Fourth Circuit· 1988-07-27· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-27· cited 16×
• United States v. Brewer
  E.D. Tennessee· 1978-03-09· cited 11×