217 Pa. Super. 148 - Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1974
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fay v. Noia · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Waller v. Florida · Ex Parte Nielsen · Snow
Most-quoted passages
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“[a] man is not to be deprived of his liberty and reputation because of the inadvertence of a trial judge or the carelessness of his counsel in failing to call the attention of the trial court to palpable error which offends against the fundamentals of a fair and impartial trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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