Commonwealth v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• probable cause existed to arrest defendant without warrant for murder when a third party confessed that defendant had helped him kill the victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-18· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. Hamlin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-28· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Chacko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-27· cited 138×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-11-18· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. Perkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-03· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Fahy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-21· cited 120×
• Commonwealth v. Zook
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-17· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Duncan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-20· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Hilliard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Trenge
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-01· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Gordon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-30· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-24· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Stokes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Hernandez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-29· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Monarch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-03-27· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Cornish
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Peters
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-03· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Cunningham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Ingram
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-05-22· cited 45×

Cites

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

• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Culombe v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-19· cited 1,662×
• Commonwealth v. Futch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 397×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Butler v. Rundle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-15· cited 222×
• Commonwealth v. Goodwin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 173×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 156×
• Commonwealth v. Jeffries
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Kenney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-30· cited 101×
• Moyer v. PHILLIPS, MD
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-07-07· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. Camm
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-05-13· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Segers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Stafford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-11-26· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Sharpe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-10-04· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Darden
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-11-12· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Whitaker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Tucker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 55×