Commonwealth v. Wallace

How courts have described this case

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

• reversible Brady violation where prosecution failed to reveal evidence which could have been used to impeach the credibility of the Commonwealth’s “star” witness
• reversible Brady violation where prosecution failed to reveal evidence which could have been used to impeach the credibility of the Commonwealth's \star\ witness
• nondisclosure of requested material mandates a new trial where material might have affected outcome of trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Cruz-Centeno
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-04· cited 332×
• Commonwealth v. Peterkin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-25· cited 215×
• Commonwealth v. Burke
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-17· cited 204×
• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-04-03· cited 154×
• Commonwealth v. Strong
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-11-29· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Bazemore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-16· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Moose
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-22· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-22· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-07-05· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Simons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-11· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Elliott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-20· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. York
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-09· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Burkhardt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-22· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Beaver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-15· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Simons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-10· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Shands
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-25· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Ulen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-11-18· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-09-20· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Galloway
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-12· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Copeland
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-23· cited 15×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• United States v. Agurs
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 6,537×
• Napue v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-15· cited 4,234×
• Oregon v. Kennedy
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 2,097×
• United States v. Dinitz
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-08· cited 1,492×
• Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 709×
• Commonwealth v. Kichline
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 312×
• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 264×
• Commonwealth v. Starks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Potter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Cain
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Cohen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-30· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Hoskins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-05· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Carpenter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-28· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Hallowell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Jenkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Hoskins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-04· cited 16×