Commonwealth v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• noting the long-standing principle that “The question of sufficiency is not assessed upon a diminished record.”
• “The question of sufficiency is not assessed upon a diminished record”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Koch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-09-16· cited 369×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz-Centeno
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-04· cited 332×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-18· cited 264×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-27· cited 184×
• Commonwealth v. Cunningham
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-07-31· cited 169×
• Commonwealth v. Dale
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-06· cited 165×
• Commonwealth v. Meals
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-27· cited 163×
• Commonwealth v. Swerdlow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-04· cited 123×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1996-06-26· cited 89×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Raphello Harris, Sr.
  Third Circuit· 1991-07-03· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Palmer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-04-19· cited 80×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 2000-04-13· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Govens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-28· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-11-23· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Ludwig
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-05-10· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Sanford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-21· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Feathers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-31· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Sattazahn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-07-30· cited 53×
• Duquesne Light Co. v. Woodland Hills School District
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-09-12· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Chamberlain
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-11· cited 44×

Cites

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

• Dutton v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1970-12-15· cited 1,926×
• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 709×
• Commonwealth v. Kichline
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 312×
• United States v. Ammar
  Third Circuit· 1983-06-30· cited 237×
• Commonwealth v. Peterkin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-25· cited 215×
• Commonwealth v. Lovette
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-05· cited 211×
• Commonwealth v. Holzer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-27· cited 195×
• Commonwealth v. Kravitz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-04-18· cited 174×
• Mead Data Central, Inc. v. West Publishing Co.
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-27· cited 170×
• United States v. Jannotti, Harry P. Schwartz, George X. Appeal of Harry P. Jannotti, in No. 83-1093. Appeal of George X. Schwartz, in No. 83-1094
  Third Circuit· 1984-03-20· cited 162×
• Commonwealth v. DeHart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-03· cited 145×
• Commonwealth v. Harper
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-05· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Coccioletti
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-04· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-31· cited 121×
• Commonwealth v. Boyle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-07-08· cited 115×
• Commonwealth v. Fortune
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-30· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Homeyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-02-13· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Thornton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Burns
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-01-21· cited 111×