Commonwealth v. Penn

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring the trial court itself to examine the nature, extent, and impact of any attempts to intimidate witnesses, in camera, if necessary
• requiring the trial court itself to examine the nature, extent, and impact of any attempts to intimidate witnesses, in camera, if necessary
• trial court made “no findings whatsoever” regarding intimidation of witness and relied entirely on prosecutor’s “second-hand, hearsay, rendition”
• trial court erred in failing to consider alternatives to closure of courtroom during testimony of one witness and to explain on record why alternatives would be impractical or inadequate
• courtroom closed to the public during testimony of one witness
• courtroom closed to the public during testimony of one witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Ortiz
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1999-09-17· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Santiago
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-05-30· cited 28×
• State of Arizona v. Marcus Deshaun Tucker, Clifton James Cuttler II and Andre Lavelle Armstrong
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2012-12-24· cited 27×
• State v. Garcia
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1997-04-01· cited 25×
• State v. Swanson
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2006-10-11· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Selenski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-04-23· cited 5×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2019-03-07· cited 1×
• State of Arizona v. Robert Guy Dayton, Jr.
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2024-02-08

Cites

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

• Waller v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-21· cited 2,166×
• Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1980-07-02· cited 1,951×
• Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., Riverside Cty.
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 1,807×
• Gannett Co. v. DePasquale
  Supreme Court· 1979-07-02· cited 1,226×
• National Labor Relations Board v. Indiana & Michigan Electric Co.
  Supreme Court· 1943-01-18· cited 147×
• Maryland v. Moon
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-19· cited 98×
• Douglas v. Wainwright
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-08-01· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Fenstermaker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-08-25· cited 82×
• United States v. Arnold Sherlock and Ronald Charley
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-01-11· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Knight
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-20· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Principatti
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1918-03-18· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Berrigan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-22· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Hodge
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-18· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Buehl
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-24· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Contakos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-01· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Stevens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-12-01· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-17· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Burton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 26×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Paylor v. Cavell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-01-21· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-20· cited 20×