Commonwealth v. Lee

How courts have described this case

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

• “It is beyond the need of citation to state that a defendant in a criminal case is under no compulsion to testify and that he is entitled to an instruction that no inference may be drawn against him by the factfinder as the result of his failure to testify.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-31· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-11-03· cited 33×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Commonwealth v. Ingram
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 283×
• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-17· cited 174×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-17· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Anthony
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-05-13· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Lincoln
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-12· cited 4×