Commonwealth v. Alston

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that no “absolute right of privacy” exists for prison medical records
• explaining that no “absolute right of privacy” exists for prison medical records
• Various communicable diseases likely to produce serious bodily injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Melvin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-21· cited 419×
• Com. v. James, G.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-06-13· cited 2×
• Com. v. Orie Melvin, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-21
• Commonwealth v. Kerrigan
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 2005-11-17

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hamling v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1974-10-15· cited 2,897×
• United States v. Wander
  Third Circuit· 1979-06-27· cited 110×
• United States v. Frank T. McCown United States of America v. Gary Lee Barnes, United States of America v. Gary Leslie Barnes
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-08-02· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Nieves
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-26· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Hendricks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-07· cited 11×
• United States v. Francis J. Hartman
  Third Circuit· 1969-04-16· cited 8×
• United States v. Smith
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 1985-10-17· cited 4×