Commonwealth v. Kennedy

How courts have described this case

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

• \[T]he person asserting mental incompetence to stand trial has the burden of proving incompetency by a preponderance of the evidence.\
• “[T]he person asserting mental incompetence to stand trial has the burden of proving incompetency by a preponderance of the evidence.”
• evidence did not support trial court's finding that the appellant was competent to stand trial when testimony showed without contradiction that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and his mental illness prevented him from cooperating with trial counsel
• evidence did not support trial court's finding that the appellant was competent to stand trial when testimony showed without contradiction that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and his mental illness prevented him from cooperating with trial counsel
• evidence did not support trial court’s finding that the appellant was competent to stand trial when testimony showed without contradiction that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and his mental illness prevented him from cooperating with trial counsel
• evidence did not support trial court's finding that the appellant was competent to stand trial when testimony showed without contradiction that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and his mental illness prevented him from cooperating with trial counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Turner, Albert James
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-10-30· cited 223×
• Commonwealth v. Banks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-02-13· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. Powell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-05-01· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Tizer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-10· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Silo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 77×
• Larry Gene Hull v. Kenneth Kyler, Superintendent Pa Attorney General
  Third Circuit· 1999-09-10· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Chopak
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-30· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Sourbeer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-01· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Michael
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-07-20· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Tyson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-31· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Logan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-18· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Saxton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-15· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-03· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-01-30· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. duPont
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-08-19· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Atkins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. McQuaid
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-30· cited 27×
• State v. Spivey
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1974-05-09· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Pifer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-01-30· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Knight
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-14· cited 23×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dusky v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-04-18· cited 3,197×
• Bishop v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1956-02-27· cited 282×
• Commonwealth v. Carluccetti
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-01-07· cited 62×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Hilberry v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-03-14· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-07-01· cited 27×