Commonwealth v. Stewart

How courts have described this case

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

• presuming prejudice in murder trial where “the father of the victim of the killing . . . was on the panel of jurors from which the trial jury had been selected, and had been in the same room with the jurors who were hearing the case for as long as two and one-half days”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Stoltzfus
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 382×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 128×
• Commonwealth v. Roots
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Black
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-08-17· cited 120×
• Commonwealth v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-24· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Bruno
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-21· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. Beasley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-28· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Sero
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Rush
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-05-11· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Silver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-09-28· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-25· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Hayes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-01· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Colon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-12-11· cited 58×
• Bruckshaw v. Frankford Hospital of the Philadelphia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-12-18· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Shirey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-07· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Rose
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-12· cited 50×
• Schwarzbach v. Dunn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-28· cited 49×
• Shinal, M., et ux, Aplts. v. Toms M.D., S.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-20· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Rolison
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-03· cited 42×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Tumey v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1927-03-14· cited 2,714×
• Sheppard v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 2,653×
• In Re Murchison.
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-16· cited 2,510×
• Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann
  Supreme Court· 1943-01-04· cited 2,192×
• In Re Oliver
  Supreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 2,065×
• Reynolds v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1879-01-18· cited 1,827×
• Estes v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 1,725×
• Rideau v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-03· cited 1,211×
• Turner v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1965-01-18· cited 1,063×
• Thompson v. City of Louisville
  Supreme Court· 1960-03-21· cited 801×
• Marshall v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-15· cited 727×
• Sinclair v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1929-06-03· cited 131×
• United States of America, Ex Rel. Silvio De Vita v. Lloyd W. McCorkle Principal Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey
  Third Circuit· 1957-11-12· cited 84×
• United States of America Ex Rel. James Morris Fletcher v. Angelo C. Cavell, Warden, Western State Penitentiary, Pittsburgh 33, Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 1961-02-23· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-10-09· cited 12×