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.

• explaining that, unlike instructions containing “an articulation of points of law” or legal definitions, trial court merely instructing jury how to fill out verdict slip, is not construed as prejudicial
• rejecting Appellant’s Brady claim based on bail report and \pay-off\ evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-29· cited 764×
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 593×
• Commonwealth v. Paddy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-30· cited 385×
• Commonwealth v. D'Amato
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-02· cited 351×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-27· cited 322×
• Commonwealth v. Rainey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 308×
• Commonwealth v. Hutchinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-22· cited 298×
• Jacobs v. Horn
  Third Circuit· 2005-01-20· cited 265×
• Commonwealth v. Natividad
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-27· cited 251×
• Commonwealth v. Carson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-27· cited 237×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-30· cited 199×
• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-06-26· cited 186×
• Commonwealth v. Rios
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-18· cited 173×
• Commonwealth v. Fletcher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 172×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 162×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-06-28· cited 161×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-05-04· cited 147×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-18· cited 140×
• Commonwealth v. Copenhefer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-28· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-27· cited 131×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• United States v. Agurs
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 6,537×
• Kyles v. Whitley
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-19· cited 6,003×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• Duren v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-09· cited 2,373×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Maynard v. Cartwright
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,367×
• Simmons v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-17· cited 1,326×
• Commonwealth v. Albrecht
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-23· cited 654×
• Commonwealth v. Kimball
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-22· cited 512×
• Lopez-Medina v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1991-10-07· cited 486×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-21· cited 416×
• Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-29· cited 410×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-19· cited 234×
• Commonwealth v. Chester
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-20· cited 227×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-09-17· cited 223×