Whitehead v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 2023
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bolden v. Com. · Brown v. Com. · Eason v. Eason · Commonwealth v. Shifflett · Hamilton v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“An appellate court may affirm the judgment of a trial court when it has reached the right result for the wrong reason. However, [t]he rule does not always apply---- [T]he proper application of this rule does not include those cases where, because the trial court has rejected the right reason or confined its decision to a specific ground, further factual resolution is needed before the right reason may be assigned to support the trial court’s decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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