Commonwealth v. Penrose

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that counsel was not ineffective when refusing to emphasize a diminished capacity defense during closing arguments when weak and diluted expert testimony supported that defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-24· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-01-25· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Heimbach
  Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas· 2008-04-30

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-01· cited 246×
• Commonwealth v. Durst
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-05-30· cited 206×
• Commonwealth v. Pursell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-26· cited 203×
• Commonwealth v. Sanford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-30· cited 160×
• Commonwealth v. McNeil
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-08· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Woodhouse
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-09-26· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Buehl
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-16· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Szuchon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-04· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Granberry
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-07· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-09· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 21×