Commonwealth v. Porter

How courts have described this case

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

• statements possessed the requisite indicia of reliability which derived from being spontaneous and against the penal interest of the declarants
• statements possessed the requisite indicia of reliability which derived from being spontaneous and against the penal interest of the declarants
• statements of co-conspirators made after initial assault on the victim but before final assault were held to be within the co-conspirator exception; the conspiracy was not complete.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Coccioletti
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-04· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-24· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-12-22· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Webster
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Starkes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-17· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Ewell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-05-02· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Haag
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-07-10· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Kelly
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-22· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Scarborough
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-29· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Stanton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Riggs
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-30· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Garrity
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-14· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Cull
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-28· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. McDowell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Bujanowski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-07· cited 16×
• United States v. Sam Lee Fowler, Jr.
  Seventh Circuit· 1973-04-04· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Galloway
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Carr
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-31· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Faraci
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-30· cited 11×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• California v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-23· cited 3,363×
• Dutton v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1970-12-15· cited 1,926×
• Schneble v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-21· cited 1,324×
• People v. Burton
  California Supreme Court· 1971-12-28· cited 217×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-01-05· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Pearson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-09-26· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Moses
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-31· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Ellsworth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-01-08· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Ransom
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-20· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Meas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-07-01· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Harmon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-10-09· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-01-26· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-06-28· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Crosby
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-06-28· cited 10×