Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 8/24/1994
Commonwealth v. Johnson
Citations
- 646 A.2d 1170
- 538 Pa. 148
- 1994 Pa. LEXIS 390
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- declining to reach the issues of reasonableness or prejudice where the defendant failed to establish that his underlying claim was of arguable merit
- declining to reach the issues of reasonableness or prejudice where the defendant failed to establish that his underlying claim was of arguable merit
- defining alibi as “a defense that places the defendant at the relevant time in a different place than the scene involved and so removed therefrom as to render it impossible for him to be the guilty party”
- defendant’s testimony placed him within 150 feet of the scene
- four justices concurring in this portion of holding
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Nix, Flaherty, Zappala, Papadakos, Cappy, Castille, Montemuro, Docket, Larsen
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12 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. DennisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-06-20· cited 200×
- Commonwealth v. MikellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-23· cited 41×
- Commonwealth v. CollinsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-10-27· cited 41×
- Commonwealth v. GladdenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-26· cited 38×
- Barrett v. Fredavid Builders, Inc.Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-09· cited 33×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-11-17· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-10-29· cited 24×
- Commonwealth v. KolendaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-05-21· cited 20×
- Hadar v. Avco Corp.Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-21· cited 19×
- Hardy v. Southland Corp.Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-06-28· cited 18×
- State v. DeffebaughSupreme Court of Kansas· 2004-05-14· cited 7×
- Commonwealth v. BookardSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-07-29· cited 2×
Cites
6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Commonwealth v. DurstSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-05-30· cited 206×
- Commonwealth v. PoundsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 144×
- Commonwealth v. WhitingSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-01-08· cited 76×
- Commonwealth v. RoxberrySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-13· cited 48×
- Commonwealth v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-13· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-16· cited 23×
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