Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 10/1/1979
Commonwealth v. Potts
Citations
- 406 A.2d 1007
- 486 Pa. 509
- 1979 Pa. LEXIS 691
How courts have described this case
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- per Manderino, J. with one judge concurring, one judge specially concurring and one judge concurring in result
- trial counsel was ineffective for failing to present psychiatric testimony which would have established that due to a personality disorder, defendant was acting in heat of passion at time of shooting
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Judges: Eagen, Flaherty, Larsen, Manderino, Nix, O'Brien, Roberts
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8 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. ChristySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-04-05· cited 123×
- Commonwealth v. WhitneySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-02-26· cited 94×
- Commonwealth v. SheppardSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-09-30· cited 34×
- Commonwealth v. StewartSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-09-17· cited 31×
- Commonwealth v. SirianniSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-16· cited 27×
- Commonwealth v. AndersonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-12-11· cited 11×
- Commonwealth v. KacsmarSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-04· cited 8×
- Commonwealth v. HurlbertSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-25· cited 2×
Cites
15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. MaroneySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
- Commonwealth v. DrumSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1868-07-01· cited 323×
- Commonwealth v. TwiggsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 298×
- Commonwealth v. McCuskerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 186×
- Commonwealth v. WalzackSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 135×
- Commonwealth v. GravesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 129×
- Commonwealth v. WaltersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-08-06· cited 109×
- Commonwealth v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-23· cited 71×
- Commonwealth v. MoslerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1846-11-20· cited 70×
- Commonwealth v. StaskoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 48×
- Commonwealth v. WhitfieldSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-01· cited 45×
- Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 27×
- Commonwealth v. MillerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-07-08· cited 17×
- Jacobs v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1888-10-01· cited 9×
- Small v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1880-01-05· cited 6×
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