Commonwealth v. Shaffer

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “(a)n acquittal cannot be interpreted as a specific finding in relation to some of the evidence,” and that consistency in a jury’s verdicts in a criminal case is unnecessary provided there is sufficient evidence to support the conviction the jury has returned

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• McCain v. Pennbank
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-31· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Boerner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-03· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Maute
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-07· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-09· cited 43×
• State v. Hall
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-03-22· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Purcell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-21· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Osellanie
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-09-25· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Lloyd
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-06-15· cited 28×
• State v. Bartlett
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-04-01· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Robichow
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-25· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Graves
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-04· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Horton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-06-16· cited 16×
• Estate of Philip Meriano, Deceased, Anita Panepinto, Administratrix v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service
  Third Circuit· 1998-04-24· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Kuykendall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-08-26· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Haines
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-05· cited 11×
• Com. v. Dahl, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-06-12· cited 9×
• Abrams v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-09· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Celane
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-11-19· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Hudak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-16
• Commonwealth v. Bittinger
  Somerset County Court of Common Pleas· 1982-09-01

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 119×
• United States v. Michael Carbone and Louis MacChiarelli
  Second Circuit· 1967-05-29· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Strand
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-11-26· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Parrotto
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-04-16· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Herron
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-22· cited 33×
• United States v. Bloom
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1977-12-19· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Dolny
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-06-24· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Kwatkoski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-29· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. PHILLIPS
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-09-11· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Black
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-06· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-09-23· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Belcher
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Stegmaier
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Justice
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-09-23· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Glendening
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-01-18· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Fox
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-27· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-02-02· cited 5×