Commonwealth v. Scott

How courts have described this case

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

• we must construe a statute so as to give effect to every word
• we must construe a statute so as to give effect to every word
• Court must construe statute, if possible, to give effect to every word

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Berryman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-11-01· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Cassidy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-11-16· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. McFadden
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-02-15· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Bishop
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-24· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Bowser
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-04-14· cited 54×
• O'DONOGHUE v. Laurel Savings Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-21· cited 40×
• In the Interest of D.S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-03-23· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-06· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Smouse
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-10· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Oliver
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-05-07· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Mitchell
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 1993-07-26· cited 2×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Monarch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-03-27· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Westcott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-02-19· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Mlinarich
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-08-30· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Saul
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-27· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Dunlap
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-20· cited 19×