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 testimony about driving under the influence in a homicide by vehicle case did not warrant a mistrial where the reference was brief, the court offered a prompt instruction, and that instruction was sufficient to overcome prejudice
• finding the evidence sufficient to support a homicide by vehicle conviction under this section, where the evidence showed that the defendant had driven his vehicle at an unsafe speed and, as a result, his car struck and killed the victim
• curative instruction to jury adequate to obviate prejudice from remark made by witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Minnich
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-09· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Hines
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 2008-04-22· cited 1×
• Com. v. Anthony, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-27

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-11-22· cited 233×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-26· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Heberling
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-07· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Swann
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-01-14· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Fetter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-02-16· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Rishel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-04-13· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Roefaro
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-03-14· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Hoke
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-12-11· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Rishel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-02· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Fetter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-11-13· cited 3×