Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 11/23/2011
Commonwealth v. May
Citations
- 31 A.3d 668
- 612 Pa. 505
- 2011 Pa. LEXIS 2833
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- refusing to invoke Section 9711(h)(3)(i) statutory review to address waived penalty phase claims alleging prosecutorial misconduct and erroneous jury instructions
- refusing to invoke Section 9711(h)(S)(i) statutory review to address waived penalty phase claims alleging prosecutorial misconduct and erroneous jury instructions
- where counsel did not interpose a contemporaneous objection, indicating that allegedly problematic aspects of the penalty phase should be deferred to collateral review and handled within the framework of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims
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Judges: Castille, Saylor, Eakin, Baer, Todd, McCaffery, Melvin
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6 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. SanchezSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-17· cited 272×
- Commonwealth v. DiamondSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-27· cited 219×
- Commonwealth v. MartinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-24· cited 132×
- Commonwealth v. PadillaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-31· cited 131×
- Commonwealth v. PerezSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-16· cited 112×
- Commonwealth v. StollarSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-01-21· cited 36×
Cites
21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
- Apprendi v. New JerseySupreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
- Ring v. ArizonaSupreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 4,683×
- Commonwealth v. GrantSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 1,205×
- Tuilaepa v. CaliforniaSupreme Court· 1994-06-30· cited 983×
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-29· cited 642×
- Commonwealth v. LeskoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-24· cited 398×
- Sattazahn v. PennsylvaniaSupreme Court· 2003-01-14· cited 379×
- Commonwealth v. ChesterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-20· cited 227×
- Commonwealth v. ReidSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-05-24· cited 131×
- Commonwealth v. FahySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-21· cited 120×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-22· cited 114×
- Commonwealth v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-29· cited 107×
- Unnamed caseThird Circuit· 1996-12-26· cited 99×
- Commonwealth v. BeasleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-18· cited 85×
- Commonwealth v. RiversSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-01· cited 77×
- Commonwealth v. ChambersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-09-30· cited 74×
- Commonwealth v. MaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-04-04· cited 69×
- Commonwealth v. MaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-02· cited 53×
- Commonwealth v. MaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-05-25· cited 52×
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