Commonwealth v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “[u]nder these circumstances, we perceive no error in the trial court’s allowing [the] appellant to be impeached by his notice of alibi defense”
• noting that trial courts have “far-reaching discretion” with respect to compelling a defendant to don clothing, including evaluating the act’s probative value (quotation omitted)
• no undue suggestiveness where all the individuals in array have reasonably similar features

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Fulmore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-27· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Kendricks
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-10-12· cited 46×
• Hopkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-11· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-07-15· cited 21×
• MacIas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-05-15· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Oliver
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-03· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Sisneros
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-18· cited 10×
• Yankowsky v. Katz, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-21· cited 6×
• Com. v. Shaw, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-07-03
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Shaw, A.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-03-25

Cites

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

• United States v. Dionisio
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 1,412×
• United States v. Gary Stephen Domina
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-03-17· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Tervalon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 122×
• Ellison v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-12· cited 116×
• United States v. Robert Joseph Satterfield
  Ninth Circuit· 1978-03-22· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Mangini
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 64×
• People v. Turner
  California Court of Appeal· 1971-12-20· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Koch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-20· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Bey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-05· cited 44×
• United States v. William Alex Roberts
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-07-17· cited 34×
• Vigil v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1956-08-13· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-29· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Fernandez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-21· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Richbourg
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-11-22· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Laniewski
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Alicea
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-09-13· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Benaglio
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-13· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Rompilla
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Soli
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-14· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-14· cited 9×