Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer

How courts have described this case

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

• noting the \erosion\ of the Jones rule and stating that \any lingering notion that the Jones rule had constitutional underpinnings has been finally dispelled\
• practice of this Court is to relax waiver rules in death penalty cases and address claim on merits if possible to do so from the record

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Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Grant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 1,205×
• State v. Ramseur
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1987-03-05· cited 731×
• Commonwealth v. Albrecht
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-23· cited 654×
• Commonwealth v. Travaglia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-23· cited 541×
• Commonwealth v. Bomar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 478×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-04· cited 461×
• State v. Black
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-08-05· cited 445×
• Commonwealth v. Chmiel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-29· cited 431×
• Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-29· cited 410×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-06· cited 387×
• Commonwealth v. Paddy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-30· cited 385×
• State v. Koedatich
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-08-03· cited 379×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-12-22· cited 339×
• Commonwealth v. Rega
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-17· cited 337×
• Commonwealth v. Lark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-20· cited 330×
• Commonwealth v. Small
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-01· cited 320×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 307×
• State v. Campbell
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-12-28· cited 303×
• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-11-30· cited 292×
• People v. Drake
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1988-01-11· cited 288×

Cites

71 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• Trop v. Dulles
  Supreme Court· 1958-03-31· cited 2,182×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Coker v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 1,233×
• Dennis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-06-04· cited 1,230×
• Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 817×
• Roberts v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-12· cited 802×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Commonwealth v. Clair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 732×
• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• Hopper v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 715×
• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 264×

Other cases named Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-12-23· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-12
• Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-24