Commonwealth v. Sheppard

How courts have described this case

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

• “In placing the burden upon the defendant to rebut a presumption of guilt, the court committed an error of basic and fundamental dimensions . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 68×
• White v. Concord Mutual Insurance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-06· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Hardick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-24· cited 35×
• Com. v. Carr, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-08-30· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Burke
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-06-21· cited 11×
• Wisniewski v. Ehemann
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-04· cited 1×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Leary v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Turner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-01-26· cited 1,166×
• Barnes v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-18· cited 793×
• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-20· cited 213×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-11-27· cited 128×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-11-12· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-25· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. McFarland
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-23· cited 50×