Commonwealth v. Woodhouse

How courts have described this case

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

• “Stare Decisis should not be trifled with. If the law knows no fixed principles, chaos and confusion will certainly follow.”
• dissenting opinion of BOK, J.
• dissenting opinion of BOK. J.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Webb v. Zern
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-06-24· cited 513×
• Commonwealth v. Farquharson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 388×
• Niederman v. Brodsky
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 260×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-29· cited 257×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-01· cited 246×
• Commonwealth v. Paquette
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 208×
• United States v. Donald Kenneth Currens
  Third Circuit· 1961-05-01· cited 193×
• Commonwealth v. McCusker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 186×
• Flagiello v. Pennsylvania Hospital
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-03-22· cited 182×
• State v. White
  Washington Supreme Court· 1962-09-25· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Demmitt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Walzack
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 135×
• Don Wade v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1970-03-30· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 121×
• Commonwealth v. Pronkoskie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-26· cited 118×
• Commonwealth v. Bruno
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Carroll
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-11-12· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Weinstein
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-26· cited 97×
• Comer Blocker v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1961-03-03· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-09-26· cited 96×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Durham v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1954-09-10· cited 486×
• State v. Lucas
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1959-06-01· cited 182×
• Commonwealth v. Novak
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-03-16· cited 145×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-10-01· cited 114×
• Flowers v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1956-12-27· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Moon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-10-04· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Mosler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1846-11-20· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Heller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-03-24· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Carluccetti
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-01-07· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Patskin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-11-17· cited 43×
• People v. Hubert
  California Supreme Court· 1897-12-11· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Chester
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1958-06-10· cited 28×
• State v. Craig
  Washington Supreme Court· 1909-03-03· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Lance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-04-18· cited 25×
• The People v. Carpenter
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1957-03-20· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Daverse
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-05-22· cited 4×