Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 3/18/1992
Commonwealth v. Weiss
Citations
- 606 A.2d 439
- 530 Pa. 1
- 1992 Pa. LEXIS 247
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- observing that when only two direct witnesses are involved, credibility \is of paramount importance\
- observing that when only two direct witnesses are involved, credibility “is of paramount importance”
- failure to call any character witnesses in a case that boiled down to credibility was ineffective assistance of counsel
- “Although familial character witnesses generally lack the credibility of unbiased non-familial witnesses, an attitude that they are per se worthless, is sufficient evidence of counsel’s incompetency.”
- “familial character witnesses generally lack the credibility of unbiased non-familial witnesses”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Zappala, Papadakos, Cappy
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40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-03-18· cited 958×
- Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-06· cited 387×
- Commonwealth v. StewartSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-10· cited 336×
- Commonwealth v. FultonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-08-19· cited 285×
- Commonwealth v. PierceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-01· cited 246×
- In the Interest of R.D.Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-04-10· cited 232×
- Commonwealth v. DennisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-06-20· cited 200×
- Commonwealth v. MontalvoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 168×
- Commonwealth v. KeatonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-30· cited 158×
- Commonwealth v. RushSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-18· cited 138×
- Commonwealth v. PaolelloSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-22· cited 134×
- Commonwealth v. WilsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-27· cited 120×
- Commonwealth v. RizzutoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-08-20· cited 113×
- Commonwealth v. NicholsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-02· cited 82×
- Commonwealth v. BusanetSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-19· cited 78×
- Commonwealth v. PerrySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-01· cited 71×
- Commonwealth v. KennedySuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-12-06· cited 66×
- Commonwealth v. BlountSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-24· cited 64×
- Commonwealth v. HargraveSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-10· cited 54×
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-15· cited 48×
Cites
8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Commonwealth v. PierceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. MaroneySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
- Commonwealth v. DurstSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-05-30· cited 206×
- Commonwealth v. PursellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-26· cited 203×
- Commonwealth v. McNeilSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-08· cited 135×
- Commonwealth v. RandallSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-09· cited 126×
- Commonwealth v. NeelySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-28· cited 54×
- Commonwealth v. SaxtonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-15· cited 43×
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