Commonwealth v. Jones

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• trial counsel’s decision not to interview an available eyewitness to incident did not amount to ineffective representation of counsel, particularly where case turned primarily on question of credibility of defendant and undercover policeman

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-03-18· cited 958×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-10· cited 336×
• Commonwealth v. Dennis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-06-20· cited 200×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-05-22· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Luther
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-15· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Perry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-01· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. DeGeorge
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-18· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Polk
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-10-04· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Linch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-29· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson, M, Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-03-26

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Commonwealth v. Twiggs
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 298×
• Commonwealth v. Mabie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 129×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Abney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-18· cited 6×