Lesko v. Lehman

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that prosecutor's argument that the jury make death penalty determination in same \cruel and malevolent manner shown by the defendants\ when they killed the victims was improper
• explaining that an adverse inference 8 may be drawn “when the defendant has testified as to some 9 facts concerning the crime charged, but has refused to 10 testify as to other facts within his knowledge”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Marshall v. Hendricks
  Third Circuit· 2002-09-11· cited 215×
• Gipson v. Jordan
  Tenth Circuit· 2004-08-02· cited 147×
• United States v. Davis
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-06-16· cited 88×
• Wayne Zilich v. Superintendent Reid, Charles Johns
  Third Circuit· 1994-09-30· cited 49×
• King v. Puckett
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-08-25· cited 38×
• John Lesko v. Secretary Pennsylvania Departm
  Third Circuit· 2022-05-17· cited 38×
• Steven Anthony Heiser v. Joseph Ryan, Warden
  Third Circuit· 1991-12-13· cited 34×
• Bemis v. United States
  First Circuit· 1994-07-25· cited 28×
• Barry Lee Fairchild v. Larry Norris, Acting Director, Arkansas Department of Correction
  Eighth Circuit· 1994-05-13· cited 23×
• Kindler v. Horn
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2003-09-24· cited 12×
• Christy v. Horn
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 1998-11-10· cited 6×
• Saunders v. Tennis
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2010-06-11· cited 2×
• United States v. Jarrett
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 2004-09-02· cited 1×
• United States v. Wilson
  Second Circuit· 2010-06-30

Cites

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

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Brady v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 7,191×
• Simmons v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-03-18· cited 6,700×
• Teague v. Lane
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-17· cited 6,602×
• In Re GAULT
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-15· cited 5,473×
• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Berger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1935-04-15· cited 4,581×
• Townsend v. Sain
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 4,485×
• Darden v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 4,161×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-13· cited 3,922×
• Blackledge v. Allison
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-02· cited 3,882×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×