Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 4/13/1978
Commonwealth v. Sargent
Citations
- 385 A.2d 484
- 253 Pa. Super. 566
- 1978 Pa. Super. LEXIS 2611
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- finding -2- J-S57007-18 that attacks on the integrity of defense counsel “undercut the fairness of the trial in a particularly severe way”
- granting a new trial to a defendant that had died
- where prosecutor told jury that the defense attorneys are “paid to acquit their clients” and trial judge’s instruction to jury dealt only with the comment that defense attorneys are paid, court’s attempted curative instruction was generalized and abstract to the point of inaccuracy
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Judges: Jacobs, Hoffman, Cercone, Price, Van Voort Spaeth, Watkins, Van Voort, Van Yoort
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9 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. PageSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-02-03· cited 127×
- Poust v. HyltonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-10· cited 30×
- Commonwealth v. MeekinsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-11· cited 18×
- Commonwealth v. RaffensbergerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-04· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. BizzaroSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-31· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-04· cited 14×
- Commonwealth v. FergusonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-09-28· cited 6×
- Com. v. Beaudoin, C., IVSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-03-23· cited 6×
- Commonwealth v. WestSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-11-12· cited 3×
Cites
18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Berger v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1935-04-15· cited 4,581×
- Commonwealth v. BoldenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-28· cited 259×
- Commonwealth v. SimonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-11-27· cited 160×
- Commonwealth v. GockleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-07-02· cited 132×
- Commonwealth v. HoffmanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-07-02· cited 114×
- Commonwealth v. RevtySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-10-04· cited 112×
- Commonwealth v. MaloneySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-24· cited 90×
- Commonwealth v. MarlinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-23· cited 89×
- Commonwealth v. CollinsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-07-07· cited 67×
- Commonwealth v. PerilloSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-08-17· cited 66×
- Commonwealth v. WalkerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-21· cited 64×
- Commonwealth v. MartinezSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-01· cited 62×
- Lobalzo v. VaroliSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-11-13· cited 62×
- Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 46×
- Commonwealth v. GlennSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-11-20· cited 35×
- Commonwealth v. FeilingSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-03-20· cited 11×
- Commonwealth v. BoldenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-03· cited 11×
- Commonwealth v. DavenportSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 5×
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