Commonwealth v. Saunders

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that replacing a principal juror -with an alternate juror after deliberation had begun, over defense objections, was plain error
• noting that “measures [need be] taken to insure the integrity of the jury function”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Bridges
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-08-24· cited 133×
• Bruckshaw v. Frankford Hospital of the Philadelphia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-12-18· cited 55×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-08-27· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Anders
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-22· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Feliciano
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-26· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Olavarria
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-04-28· cited 6×
• State of West Virginia v. Quenton A. Sheffield
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2022-06-14
• Rohm & Haas Co. v. Continental Casualty Co.
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 2002-02-26

Cites

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

• United States v. Phillips
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-12-28· cited 659×
• People v. Collins
  California Supreme Court· 1976-08-06· cited 265×
• United States v. Kopituk
  Eleventh Circuit· 1982-11-04· cited 185×
• United States v. Gregory Foster, Johnnie Lee Gibson, Billy Jackson, Ronald H. Wilson
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-12-13· cited 154×
• Commonwealth v. Connor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-08-21· cited 138×
• United States v. James Hillard, Robert Allen and Samuel Hillard
  Second Circuit· 1983-03-01· cited 110×
• Claudio v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-01-22· cited 107×
• United States v. Joseph Corre Lamb, Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-12-29· cited 92×
• People v. Ryan
  New York Court of Appeals· 1966-12-30· cited 74×
• People v. Burnette
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-06-26· cited 62×
• United States v. Tersea Adela Ashby
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-12-29· cited 39×
• United States v. Gregory A. McFarland
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-09-13· cited 37×
• Keith v. Rice
  Supreme Court· 1990-10-09· cited 31×
• United States v. Gerardo Jorge Guevara A/K/A \Tino\
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-08-03· cited 30×
• People v. Dry Land Marina, Inc
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1989-02-23· cited 30×
• United States v. Jesus Quiroz-Cortez
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-04-28· cited 25×
• Tanner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-10-25· cited 24×
• State v. Lipsky
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1978-11-30· cited 20×
• United States v. Carl Ray Helms, Dennis Harris, Charles E. Vandervort, Shirley Harris and Paul Earl Briggs
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-03-26· cited 18×
• Bulls v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1985-04-04· cited 16×