Commonwealth v. King

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that recusal argument was waived when the appellant did not object after judge refused to recuse himself
• holding judge “could not possibly have made fully informed credibility determinations without observing the demeanor of the witnesses”
• stating a judge “could not possibly have made fully informed credibility determinations without observing the demeanor of the witnesses”
• affirming murder conviction on conspiracy theory where co-conspirator shot victim in course of committing robbery that defendant had agreed to arrange and share proceeds from
• stating a judge “could not possibly have made fully informed credibility determinations without observing the demeanor of the witnesses”
• stating “[e]ach co-conspirator is liable for the actions of the others if those actions were in furtherance of the common criminal design”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Houck
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-26· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Gordy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-07-19· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Street
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-05-03· cited 19×
• Com. v. Alceus, F.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-05-08· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Coon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-10· cited 15×
• Com. v. Akhmedov, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-07-29
• Commonwealth v. Perrin, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-03-21
• Com. v. Cooper, H.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-04-22
• Commonwealth v. Peters, K., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-05-04

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Tedford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-19· cited 325×
• Commonwealth v. Kimbrough
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-19· cited 121×
• Commonwealth v. Marquez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-08-31· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Habay
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-10· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Baskerville
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-08-01· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Bradley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Russell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-29· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Pitner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-12· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Leister
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-05-21· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Dorm
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-04-21· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Neff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-10-19· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Dimmig
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-04· cited 5×