Commonwealth v. Riggins

How courts have described this case

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

• statement that the presumption of innocence is a cloak and “not a shield for the guilty to hide behind” was proper in response to an analogous statement made during defense closing
• statement that the presumption of innocence is a cloak and \not a shield for the guilty to hide behind\ was proper in response to an analogous statement made during defense closing
• The defendant's being a Muslim was relevant with \respect to the identification of the killer\ because the victim's dying declaration identified the defendant \as one of her three assailants and stated that all three were Muslims.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Cottam
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-17· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. French
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-11· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Sattazahn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-07-30· cited 53×
• Amin v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1989-05-19· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Fiore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-20· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Purcell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-21· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Bowers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-12-11· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Munson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-28· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Gainer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-28· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-29· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-01· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Galloway
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-12· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-08-25· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Gibbs
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-08-29· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Bonace
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-06· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. McCloy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-04-10· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1989-04-03

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Francis v. Franklin
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-29· cited 2,053×
• MacKey v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1971-04-05· cited 945×
• Allen v. Hardy
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-30· cited 521×
• Shea v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-20· cited 233×
• Commonwealth v. Pursell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-26· cited 203×
• Yates v. Aiken
  Supreme Court· 1988-01-12· cited 185×
• Commonwealth v. Ohle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-14· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. D'Amato
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-22· cited 154×
• Commonwealth v. Stoyko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-17· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Riggins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Albrecht
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-06-23· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Richardson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-18· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Maute
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-07· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Nichols
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Ehrsam
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-09· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Gillespie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-28· cited 55×