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.

• holding that under no circumstances is indiscriminate exclusion of the public proper
• “[A]ppellant’s right to a public trial, under both the United States Constitution and the Pennsylvania Constitution, included the right to have the jury that was to try him selected in public.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-20· cited 69×
• Steadman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-03-07· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Buehl
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-24· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Stilley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-01-09· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Constant
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-05· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-01· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Penn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-07-07· cited 22×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-10-08· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Berrigan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-27· cited 15×
• State v. Cuccio
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2002-04-17· cited 14×
• Commonwealth, Department of Environmental Resources v. PBS Coals, Inc.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-03· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Mueller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-04· cited 8×
• State v. Shipley
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1985-06-19· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Day
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-21· cited 4×
• Conforti v. McGarvey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-09-13· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-01· cited 1×
• Steadman, Jeffrey Dee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-03-07
• Commonwealth v. Tinkey
  Somerset County Court of Common Pleas· 1985-01-14
• Commonwealth v. Roth
  Northumberland County Court of Common Pleas· 1985-02-19

Cites

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

• Duncan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 3,740×
• In Re Oliver
  Supreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 2,065×
• Globe Newspaper Co. v. Superior Court, County of Norfolk
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-23· cited 1,561×
• Hopt v. People of Territory of Utah
  Supreme Court· 1884-03-03· cited 1,005×
• United States v. Brooklier
  Ninth Circuit· 1982-08-31· cited 150×
• United States v. Kobli
  Third Circuit· 1949-02-03· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Nazarovitch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-10-29· cited 141×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Edward Bennett No. H-6720 v. Alfred T. Rundle, Warden of Eastern Correctional Institute, Graterford, Pa
  Third Circuit· 1970-01-14· cited 130×
• United States v. Sorrentino
  Third Circuit· 1949-07-06· cited 96×
• People v. Teitelbaum
  California Court of Appeal· 1958-08-26· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Silver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-09-28· cited 71×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Robert W. Lloyd v. Leon J. Vincent, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility,respondent-Appellant
  Second Circuit· 1975-07-16· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Hayes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-01· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Knight
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-20· cited 61×
• Provident Credit Corp. v. Young
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-14· cited 51×
• Prince v. Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County
  Supreme Court· 1975-11-03· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Hodge
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-18· cited 46×
• United States v. Shoreline Cooperative Apartments, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1949-12-12· cited 38×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Horace Laws v. Howard D. Yeager, Principal Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey
  Third Circuit· 1971-08-30· cited 31×
• Wilhite v. Agbayani
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1954-04-14· cited 28×