Commonwealth v. Adams

How courts have described this case

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

• cross-examination of character witness is allowed where actual purpose of examination is to test whether witness is familiar with reputation concerning which he has testified
• cross-examination of character witness is allowed where actual purpose of examination is to test whether witness is familiar with reputation concerning which he has testified

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Patosky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-16· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Morgan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-10-01· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Choi Chun Lam
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-15· cited 29×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-11-05· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Amos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Neely
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-28· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Jenkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-03-17· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-08· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Butts
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-11-12· cited 16×