Commonwealth v. Mimms

How courts have described this case

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

• considering local “notoriety of the Muslim faith” in determining cross-examination on defendant’s Muslim affiliation not harmless error
• concurring opinion of Roberts, J., joined by Eagen, C. J., and Manderino, J.
• defendant’s religious affiliation with Islam irrelevant to carrying concealed deadly weapon and carrying a firearm without a license

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Caraher
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1982-11-02· cited 274×
• Commonwealth v. Cottam
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-17· cited 93×
• People v. Wood
  New York Court of Appeals· 1985-12-19· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-25· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Hoskins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-05· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-12-19· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Rawls
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-13· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Eubanks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-09· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Ashley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-13· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Collini
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-02-23· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Fawcett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-02· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Berrigan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-27· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Costal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-19· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Rainey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-19· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Myer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-08· cited 9×
• Box v. Petsock
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 1987-11-16· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Richter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Greenwood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-25· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Lyons
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Bilhardt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-08-24· cited 3×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Mapp v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 9,088×
• Pennsylvania v. Mimms
  Supreme Court· 1977-12-05· cited 3,269×
• Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority
  Supreme Court· 1936-02-17· cited 3,147×
• Wyman v. James
  Supreme Court· 1971-01-12· cited 427×
• Cox v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-17· cited 419×
• Wiegand v. Wiegand
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 274×
• People v. Brisendine
  California Supreme Court· 1975-02-20· cited 267×
• Commonwealth v. Swanger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 193×
• Commonwealth v. Triplett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Platou
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Moody
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-11-30· cited 108×
• Coinmonwealth v. Eazer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-27· cited 50×
• State v. Prouse
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1978-01-30· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Knowles
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Mimms
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Branham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 28×
• Reed v. Sloan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-01· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Galloway
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 14×
• McKim v. Philadelphia Transportation Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-03-20· cited 14×