Commonwealth v. Morales

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that appellant’s weight of the evidence claim failed where he did not argue that court palpably abused its discretion and court properly viewed issue as one of credibility that jury resolved in favor of victim
• \[A] new trial is warranted only when the jury's verdict is so contrary to the evidence that it shocks one's sense of justice and the award of a new trial is imperative so that right may be given another opportunity to prevail.\
• identifying hearing on motions in limine as “pre-trial hearing”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Konias
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-03-18· cited 80×
• Com. v. Lake, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-08-15· cited 39×
• In the Interest of: C.R., a Minor
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-06· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-20· cited 17×
• Com. v. Torsunov, Y.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-09-17· cited 1×
• Com. v. Pendleton, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-03-21
• Com. v. Martin, M. Jr.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-06-12
• Com. v. Pledger, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-02-20

Cites

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

• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Pennsylvania v. Ritchie
  Supreme Court· 1987-02-24· cited 2,521×
• Barber v. Page
  Supreme Court· 1968-04-29· cited 1,846×
• Giles v. California
  Supreme Court· 2008-06-25· cited 725×
• Uttecht v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 2007-06-04· cited 596×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-06· cited 387×
• United States v. Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa
  Second Circuit· 2001-03-21· cited 364×
• Commonwealth v. Rega
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-17· cited 337×
• Commonwealth v. Diggs
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-06-17· cited 313×
• Commonwealth v. Paddy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-07-08· cited 285×
• Commonwealth v. Houser
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-29· cited 242×
• Commonwealth v. Tharp
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-07-02· cited 191×
• Commonwealth v. Markman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-02-21· cited 189×
• Commonwealth v. Galvin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 188×
• Commonwealth v. Flor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-07-22· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Pruitt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-23· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Fears
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-20· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-29· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Hornberger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-10-09· cited 104×