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.

• trial counsel was ineffective for failing to preserve objection to patently inadmissible hearsay and this implicated reliability of truth-determining process in that hearsay is inherently unreliable and hearsay at issue was a key piece of evidence establishing defendant’s guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Dent
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-25· cited 149×
• Commonwealth v. Fluharty
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-21· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-02· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Priovolos
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-27· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Petroski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-06-10· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Tanner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-12-06· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Iseley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-22· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Collazo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-02-24· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Grier
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-11-20· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-07-12· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Dukeman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-26· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Korb
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-14· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Loach
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-12-31· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Harvey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-08-30· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Garnett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-11· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-25· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Hanes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-14· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Ross
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-30· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-20· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Hanyon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-05-02· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Commonwealth v. Hubbard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 854×
• Commonwealth v. Lawson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-17· cited 180×
• Commonwealth v. Petras
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-11-30· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Sneed
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-22· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-30· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Cargo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-23· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Albert
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-07-10· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Alexander
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-08· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Watlington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-14· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Carelli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-15· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Palsa
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-06· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Sampson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-19· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-02-24· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. House
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-02-10· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Tselepis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-06-13· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Hoyman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-28· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Underwood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-27· cited 33×