Commonwealth v. Wright

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecutor offered to introduce defendant’s prior criminal record in open court despite trial court’s advance ruling against admissibility
• prosecutor offered to introduce defendant's prior criminal record in open court despite trial court's advance ruling against admissibility
• “prosecutorial misconduct [that] invited the mistrial in order to secure another, possibly more favorable opportunity to convict the accused.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Bolden
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-28· cited 259×
• Commonwealth v. Robson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Potter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 83×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-07-14· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-01· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Virtu
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-17· cited 38×
• State v. Ballinger
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1973-01-09· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Wiggins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-16· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Rios
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Sanders
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-12-05· cited 22×
• Tabbs v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1979-07-10· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Meekins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-11· cited 18×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-10-14· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Beck
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-01· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-18· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Ferguson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-19· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Custor
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-05· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Buffington
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-23· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Alger
  Beaver County Court of Common Pleas· 1971-02-18

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Benton v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 4,063×
• Downum v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-04-22· cited 985×
• Gori v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 679×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Donald Howard Montgomery v. Joseph R. Brierley, Superintendent
  Third Circuit· 1969-09-04· cited 136×
• Clifton Gregory v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-04-25· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Warfield
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-03-14· cited 49×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Montgomery v. Myers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-06-24· cited 42×
• United States v. John K. Smith
  Fourth Circuit· 1968-02-05· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Metz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-04-18· cited 22×
• John J. Vaccaro v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1966-06-16· cited 18×
• United States v. Nathaniel Presley Davis
  Fourth Circuit· 1967-02-13· cited 12×
• United States v. Burrell
  Seventh Circuit· 1963-10-16· cited 11×
• Richard E. Leigh v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1964-04-03· cited 5×