Commonwealth v. Randall

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecution’s comments “are improper only if they unequivocally call attention to the defendant’s failure to testify”
• “It is within the province of the fact[-]finder to determine the weight to be accorded each witness’s testimony and to believe all, part, or none of the evidence introduced at trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Leatherby
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-21· cited 362×
• Commonwealth v. Charleston
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-06· cited 278×
• Commonwealth v. Provenzano
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-07-27· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-08-15· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-09-26· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-01-20· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. McDonough
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-07-21· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Molina
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-11-09· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Serge
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-03· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Ruder
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-02-25· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Rose
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-09-29· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-22· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Jeter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-08· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Mawhinney
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-13· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Walls
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-06-02· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Blessitt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-06-10· cited 8×
• Charleston v. Gilmore
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2018-03-29· cited 5×
• Parmelee v. Piazza
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2008-07-22· cited 1×
• Com. v. Wenzel, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-03-17· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. SMP, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-03-18· cited 1×

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Kloiber
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-06-28· cited 530×
• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 264×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-01· cited 246×
• Commonwealth v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-09-17· cited 237×
• Commonwealth v. Hardcastle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-10· cited 233×
• Commonwealth v. Edmiston
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-10· cited 196×
• Commonwealth v. Tilley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-18· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Rios
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-30· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Auker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-07-31· cited 138×
• Commonwealth v. Stoyko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-17· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Kloch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-09-23· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-25· cited 127×
• Buchbinder v. Commissioner
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-23· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Swerdlow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-04· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-27· cited 120×
• Commonwealth v. Gaskins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-08· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Faulkner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-16· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Marinelli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-02-25· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Bond
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-12· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Minerd
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-06-20· cited 94×