Commonwealth v. Owens

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no due process violation where, “prior to summarily citing and punishing appellant for contempt, the court gave appellant sufficient notice that his conduct was contemptuous and sufficient opportunity to desist.”
• defendant who continually disrupted his counsel’s closing argument and struggled with sheriff in court obstructed justice
• defendant repeatedly refused to behave in an orderly manner and interrupted Commonwealth’s closing argument
• defendant repeatedly interrupted proceedings to request new counsel and express dissatisfaction with proceedings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Davido
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-02-25· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Jermyn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-02-25· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. El
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-08-20· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-05-31· cited 40×
• Williams v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-07-08· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Mancini
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-29· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Bowermaster
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-12· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Falkenhan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-11-15· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Vaglica
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-20· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Cameron
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-08· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-30· cited 11×
• Smith v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-01· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-09-23· cited 8×
• Matter of James
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-06· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Zacher
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-01-14· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-19· cited 6×
• MOFFATT BY MOFFATT v. Buano
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-02-06· cited 4×
• Com. v. Williams, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-04-23· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Stevenson, V., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-09-29