Commonwealth v. McCullough

How courts have described this case

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

• “[a factfinder] may not consider evidence outside of the record in making its determination. Nor may this Court uphold a trial court's order on the basis of off-the-record facts”
• “a jury [may] not undermine a defendant’s due process rights to a fair and impartial trial by forming opinions about the defendant’s guilt or innocence by obtaining information outside of the record”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Com. v. McCullough, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-03-25· cited 10×
• Com. v. Roberts, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-03-30

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Reilly v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-27· cited 428×
• Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-29· cited 410×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-12-22· cited 339×
• In Re Martorano
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Carpenter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-26· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Chmiel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-19· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Lambert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-12-18· cited 97×
• Municial Publications, Inc. v. Court of Common Pleas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-27· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-10-04· cited 79×
• Lomas, R. v. Kravitz, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-12-21· cited 47×
• Ney v. Ney
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-02-07· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Satzberg
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-23· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-30· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Ferri
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-09· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. McCullough
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-27· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Warren
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 6×