Commonwealth v. Richardson

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that there are valid reasons not to ask questions concerning racial issues even in a case where the victim is white and the defendant is black
• noting that there are valid reasons not to ask questions concerning racial issues even in a case where the victim is white and the defendant is black
• the mere fact that a black man was charged with raping a white woman did not imbue the case with heightened racial sensitivity requiring specific voir dire on racial bias
• the mere fact that a black man was charged with raping a white woman did not imbue the case with heightened racial sensitivity requiring specific voir dire on racial bias

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Steele
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-12-18· cited 284×
• Commonwealth v. DeHart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-03· cited 145×
• Commonwealth v. Henry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-23· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Marrero
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-12-26· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Gray
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-11· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-06-11· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Hackett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-09· cited 25×
• Reynolds v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Glaspy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-13· cited 10×
• Hackett v. Price
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2001-08-06· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Slocum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-05-22· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Walker, H., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-08-19

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ham v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-17· cited 622×
• Schwartz v. Defender Ass'n of Philadelphia
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-03· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Futch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-24· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Christian
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 39×
• American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-03· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-11-26· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Richardson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-24· cited 3×