Commonwealth v. Wadzinski

How courts have described this case

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

• statute proscribes any person from publishing any statement concerning any candidate for election without signature of person responsible — not limited to charges
• if matter is justiciable, court of common pleas has jurisdiction to hear it, and remedy for bringing case in wrong division is not dismissal, but transfer to correct division
• actual malice required to impose sanctions on speech in political campaign

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-27· cited 66×
• Hollman v. Hollman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-01· cited 36×
• DePaul v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-04-30· cited 35×
• State v. Powell
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1992-07-27· cited 25×
• Lewis v. Pennsylvania Bar Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-10-20· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Reed
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-02· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-07· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Beck
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-11-21· cited 8×
• Golden Triangle News, Inc. v. Corbett
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-09-12· cited 6×
• Rickert v. Public Disclosure Commission
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2005-09-07· cited 4×
• In Re Miller
  Judicial Discipline of Pennsylvania· 2002-02-01· cited 3×
• Rickert v. State, Public Disclosure Com'n
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2005-09-07· cited 3×
• Fowler v. Nebraska Accountability & Disclosure Commission
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1983-02-04
• Coyle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-11-29
• In re Miller
  Judicial Discipline of Pennsylvania· 2000-09-26
• Commonwealth v. Moyer
  Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas· 1984-04-26

Cites

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

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Buckley v. Valeo
  Supreme Court· 1976-02-27· cited 4,982×
• Broadrick v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-25· cited 4,338×
• Cantwell v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1940-05-20· cited 3,669×
• Roth v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-06-24· cited 3,255×
• Garrison v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 1,859×
• Crowell v. Benson
  Supreme Court· 1932-02-23· cited 1,799×
• Williams v. Rhodes
  Supreme Court· 1968-10-15· cited 1,576×
• First Nat. Bank of Boston v. Bellotti
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-26· cited 1,551×
• Police Dept. of Chicago v. Mosley
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 1,516×
• Lovell v. City of Griffin
  Supreme Court· 1938-03-28· cited 1,301×
• United States Civil Service Commission v. National Ass'n of Letter Carriers
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-25· cited 1,290×
• Murdock v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1943-05-03· cited 1,248×
• Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-23· cited 1,124×
• Kovacs v. Cooper
  Supreme Court· 1949-02-28· cited 1,120×
• Gitlow v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1925-06-08· cited 1,060×
• United States v. Thirty-Seven (37) Photographs
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-14· cited 690×
• Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 685×
• Mills v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1966-05-23· cited 654×
• Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 632×