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 court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to permit the jury to possess during deliberation a prosecution witness’ notes that defense counsel extensively used on cross-examination of the witness
• trial counsel is not ineffective for failing to object when a prosecutor's remarks are “within the ambit of fair comment’

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Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Sandusky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-02-05· cited 419×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-07-30· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-11-23· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Akers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-30· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Blystone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-19· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Fox
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-01-14· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-11· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Munson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-28· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. McMaster
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-10-20· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Thuy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-04-13· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Riffert
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-09-02· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-07-25· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-08· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Horton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-06-16· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Bujanowski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-07· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-17· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-09-04· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Fowler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-06-01· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Kauffman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-06-05· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Zdrale
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-13· cited 8×

Cites

55 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. Pettus
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-05· cited 291×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-20· cited 164×
• Commonwealth v. D'Amato
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-22· cited 154×
• Commonwealth v. Stoyko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-17· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Carpenter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-09-25· cited 116×
• Commonwealth v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-24· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Whiteman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-30· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Albrecht
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-06-23· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Beasley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-18· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-14· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Ehrsam
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-09· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-06-23· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-08· cited 49×
• Maxwell v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-24· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-06· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Barren
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-08· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Silo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-12· cited 44×