Commonwealth v. Kane

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming conviction of state attorney general, who was sentenced to 10 to 23 months' imprisonment, for charges related to leaking grand jury information to the press
• affirming conviction of state attorney general, who was sentenced to 10 to 23 monthsʹ imprisonment, for charges related to leaking grand jury information to the press
• discussing the standard of review of a recusal claim and noting that a decision on recusal is a “personal and unreviewable decision that only the jurist can make”
• distinguishing between vindictive prosecution and selective prosecution and noting that selective prosecution is complete defense to charge of criminal conduct, in which accused bears burden of pleading existence of specific elements of events
• vindictive prosecution claim is not defense on merits and not matter for presentation to jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Com. v. Knupp, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-02-22· cited 27×
• Com. v. Renninger, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-01-03· cited 25×
• United States v. Walters
  Second Circuit· 2018-12-04· cited 24×
• Com. v. Sami, N.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-12-22· cited 19×
• Com. v. Caulk, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-10-09· cited 9×
• Com. v. Distefano, B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-07-29· cited 6×
• Com. v. Forrester-Westad, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-09-01· cited 1×
• Com. v. Fitzpatrick, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-05-17

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-30· cited 731×
• Commonwealth v. Lesko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-24· cited 398×
• Commonwealth v. Chamberlain
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-10-14· cited 270×
• Commonwealth v. Cook
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-24· cited 224×
• Arnold v. Arnold
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-08· cited 192×
• Commonwealth v. Stokes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-08· cited 162×
• Commonwealth v. Barnett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-07-29· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-10-02· cited 93×
• Board of Revision of Taxes, City of Philadelphia v. City of Philadelphia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-09-20· cited 86×
• In Re Lokuta
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-01-14· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Weston
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-04-17· cited 74×
• Pap's A.M. v. City of Erie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-21· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Zugay
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-19· cited 63×
• Goodman v. Kennedy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-30· cited 58×
• Lomas, R. v. Kravitz, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-12-21· cited 47×
• Castellani, R., Aplts. v. Scranton Times
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-10-27· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Hewett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-12-02· cited 35×
• In Re Dauphin County Fourth Investigating Grand Jury
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-11· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Stetler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-03· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Rocco
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-06-30· cited 21×