Commonwealth v. Mitchell

How courts have described this case

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

• “ ‘[W]e expect strict compliance with [the] rules [of criminal procedure]
• “Appellate Courts render a disservice to judicial economy and the efficient operation of our court system where they freely accept issues that could have and should have been first presented to the courts below for their consideration.”
• joined by one Justice with three concurring
• joined by one Justice with three concurring

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Hubbard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 854×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 307×
• Commonwealth v. Davenport
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-16· cited 232×
• Commonwealth v. Jacoby, T., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-09-28· cited 229×
• Commonwealth v. Szuchon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-20· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-04-07· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Bartolomucci
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Hilliard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Watlington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Benson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-25· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Logan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Kinsey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-29· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Brocklehurst
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Dussinger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 43×
• Pegg v. General Motors Corp.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Weitkamp
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Henderson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 33×
• Howard James Klobuchir v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 1981-03-23· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Branham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 27×

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Mapp v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 9,088×
• Escobedo v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 5,250×
• Linkletter v. Walker
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 2,898×
• Sanders v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-04-29· cited 2,713×
• McNabb v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1943-06-07· cited 2,030×
• Mallory v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-06-24· cited 1,364×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 817×
• Commonwealth v. Clair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 732×
• Commonwealth v. Blair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 461×
• Commonwealth v. Futch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 397×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 193×
• Kuchinic v. McCrory
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-09-27· cited 146×
• O’connor v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1966-11-14· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Tingle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-25· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Jefferson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-01-04· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Reid
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Wayman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-10-03· cited 86×