Commonwealth v. Jordan

How courts have described this case

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

• primary duty of trial judge when instructing jury is to clarify the issues

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

45 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Young
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-25· cited 276×
• People v. Morrin
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1971-03-16· cited 266×
• Commonwealth v. Coyle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-10-14· cited 166×
• Commonwealth v. Simon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-11-27· cited 160×
• Commonwealth v. Gockley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-07-02· cited 132×
• Smith v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-04-26· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Carroll
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-11-12· cited 103×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Kerekes v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-11-15· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Rife
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Jennings
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-01-07· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Light
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-01-28· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Cain
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Phelan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-09-26· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Ahearn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-04-19· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-01-19· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Meas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-07-01· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Dessus
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-06-13· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-04-22· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Dews
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-15· cited 29×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Drum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1868-07-01· cited 323×
• Commonwealth v. Bolish
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-04-19· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Horn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-03-16· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Heller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-03-24· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Carluccetti
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-01-07· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1957-06-06· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Gibbs
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-11-20· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Patskin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-11-17· cited 43×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Johnson v. Myers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-01-16· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-01-04· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Gossard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-05-21· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Reed
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1912-02-05· cited 12×