Commonwealth v. Young

How courts have described this case

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

• where defense counsel submits that defendant’s cooperation with police was more consistent with innocence than guilt, prosecutor’s reminder to jury that it was not known what defendant thought was proper
• prosecutor’s closing argument that jurors did not know what was in defendant’s mind at the time of the offense or at the time he cooperated with police was not an impermissible comment on the defendant’s failure to testify

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-29· cited 410×
• Commonwealth v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-09-17· cited 237×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-31· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Toledo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-21· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-21· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Rhone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-01-27· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-09· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-25· cited 7×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Commonwealth v. Clair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 732×
• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• Commonwealth v. Hoffman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-07-02· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Gilman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Settles
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-03-18· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Brenizer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-05-12· cited 15×