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.

• stating that the court’s refusal to give a requested charge only requires reversal if the defendant was prejudiced by that refusal
• stating that “[t]he trial court is not required to give every charge that is requested by the parties and its refusal to give a requested charge does not require reversal unless the appellant was prejudiced by that refusal.”
• stating that a “trial court is not required to give every charge that is requested by the parties[,] and its refusal to give a requested charge does not require reversal unless the appellant was prejudiced by that refusal.”
• trial court is “not required to give every charge that is requested by the parties”
• “[court’s] refusal to give a requested charge does not require reversal unless the appellant was prejudiced by that refusal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Sebolka
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-02-25· cited 183×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-08· cited 169×
• Commonwealth v. Wise
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-09-15· cited 47×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Morissette v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-07· cited 3,056×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-29· cited 181×
• Commonwealth v. Cottam
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-17· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-09· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Lesher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-03· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-10-18· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Hamilton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-01-11· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Hoover
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-07· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Hobson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-14· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Compel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-09-22· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Bollinger
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-03-21· cited 9×