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.

• where after seven hours of deliberation jury reported a deadlock and, after fifty minutes of further deliberation, reported they were hopelessly deadlocked, “manifest necessity” for a mistrial existed
• in murder trial, trial court did not commit error by failing to charge on voluntary manslaughter, where defendant did not request such a charge and did not note a specific exception when the trial court failed to so charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Whistnant
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-02-12· cited 230×
• Chao v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-01-29· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. McCord
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-06· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-20· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-26· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Holmes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-04-22

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Alexander v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1972-04-03· cited 889×
• Commonwealth v. Clair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 732×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 44×
• John William Smith v. Howard Yeager, Warden, New Jersey State Prison
  Third Circuit· 1972-12-18· cited 41×