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.

• finding no jury confusion nor corresponding prejudice when faced with a similar series of facts
• filing of criminal charges against detectives in an unrelated matter does not meet the after-discovered evidence test since such evidence would be used solely to impeach
• evidence of police detective’s conviction would not lead to different verdict because he was a minor witness who merely corroborated another detective’s testimony
• “[C]laim not raised in a PCRA petition cannot be raised for the first time on appeal.”
• former Detective Dove’s criminal convictions that occurred years after Appellant’s trial have no bearing on Appellant’s own case
• “It is well-settled law that the decision whether to seek a jury instruction implicates a matter of trial strategy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Com. v. Stamps, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-22
• Com. v. Barber, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-27

Cites

42 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×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-01-17· cited 986×
• Commonwealth v. Basemore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-20· cited 404×
• Commonwealth v. Lesko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-24· cited 398×
• Commonwealth v. Rega
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-17· cited 337×
• Commonwealth v. Lark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-20· cited 330×
• Commonwealth v. Cox, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-09-28· cited 292×
• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-19· cited 271×
• In the Interest of D.M.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-18· cited 270×
• Commonwealth v. Hyland
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-27· cited 255×
• Commonwealth v. Drumheller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-09-20· cited 254×
• Commonwealth v. Natividad
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-27· cited 251×
• Commonwealth v. Loner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-10-22· cited 230×
• Commonwealth v. Santiago
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-17· cited 226×
• Commonwealth v. Bond
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-08-23· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-19· cited 193×
• Commonwealth v. Begley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-09-26· cited 192×
• Commonwealth v. Weiss
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-31· cited 185×
• Commonwealth v. Copenhefer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-05· cited 172×