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.

• mere allegation that a witness would have testified as a character witness is not sufficient to require grant of new trial; some evidentiary support for such an allegation must be present for relief to be granted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-01-17· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Lassen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-16· cited 29×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Commonwealth v. Petras
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-11-30· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Weiss
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-18· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Poindexter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-25· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Cross
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-05· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Smallwood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-10· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-14· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Stanley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-08· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Wells
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-01-15· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Bulard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-15· cited 9×