Commonwealth v. Newsome

How courts have described this case

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

• sentence for a term of years of unspecified length versus life sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. O'SEARO
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 219×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-04-07· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Slaughter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-11-18· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. Gordon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-30· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-01-28· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Holland
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Peters
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-03· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Romberger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Bey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-29· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-06-05· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-07-07· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Gardner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Wiggins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-16· cited 26×
• Furey v. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-02-10· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Chism
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Dalahan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-01-19· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Oates
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-08-31· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Johnston
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-20· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. May
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Guess
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-21· cited 5×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Clair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 732×
• Commonwealth v. Futch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 397×
• Commonwealth. v. Hoss
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 129×
• Commonwealth v. Stafford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. LAWSON
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-21· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Blagman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Chester
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-01-08· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 36×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1964-03-06· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 16×