Commonwealth v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “numerous cases” have held that admission into an ARD program is not a conviction that may be used for impeachment
• recognizing that when dealing with statutory mandate, such as section 3731(e)(2), acceptance of ARD is considered a conviction
• holding that the trial court erred by admitting impeachment evidence of a witness’ prior theft arrest, but that the error was harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-23· cited 72×
• Sewak v. Lockhart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-14· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Handfield
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-12-14· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Hoover
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-07· cited 41×
• Whalen v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-11-23· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Rega
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-06-17· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Copeland
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-23· cited 15×
• Com. v. McCabe, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-03-27· cited 14×
• Pompey v. COM., DEPT. OF TRANSP.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-02-01· cited 6×
• Lueth v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-17· cited 5×
• Kearney v. Bureau of Professional & Occupational Affairs
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-10-16· cited 5×
• J.F. v. Dep't of Human Servs.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-03-07· cited 5×
• City of Golden Valley v. One 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix, Vin 1g2wp521wf309530, Pennsylvania License Plate P520111
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2000-09-12
• Ferguson, H., Aplt. v. Dept. of Transportation
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-07-22

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-19· cited 271×
• Commonwealth v. Randall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-09· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-11-10· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-05· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Nolen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-22· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-04-25· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Blount
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-24· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Rollins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-13· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Bowser
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-04-14· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Becker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-08-10· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Knepp
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-10· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Riggins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-24· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Krall
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-15· cited 27×
• Goodman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Feagley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-02-29· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Hess
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-09-30· cited 19×
• DeNillo v. DeNillo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-30· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. McSorley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-26· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Ferguson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-25· cited 12×