Commonwealth v. Watts

How courts have described this case

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

• unwarranted failure to object to inflammatory closing remarks by prosecutor constituted ineffective assistance of counsel and warranted the grant of a new trial
• unwarranted failure to object to inflammatory closing remarks by prosecutor constituted ineffective assistance of counsel and warranted the grant of a new trial
• failure of defendant’s counsel to object to statements contained in prosecutor’s closing remarks that “I want blood all over the courtroom. I want to upset you about this case” amounted to ineffective assistance of counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. LaCava
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-19· cited 252×
• Commonwealth v. Brinkley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-07-13· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Todt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-15· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Hernandez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-04-29· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Watts
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1980-09-08
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Lebanon County Court of Common Pleas· 1981-12-30

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Kwong Hai Chew v. Colding
  Supreme Court· 1953-02-09· cited 1,206×
• Lutwak v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1953-03-16· cited 1,108×
• Commonwealth v. Martinolich
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-25· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Cherry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 70×