Commonwealth v. Bryant

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that appellate weight claim not raised to the trial court is waived for review
• concluding that evidence was sufficient to support EWOC conviction where appellant, who was not a parent or guardian of child, owed a duty of care to child and violated the duty when he abused her
• concluding that trial court did not err in excluding other pages of victim’s diary; “The burden is on Appellant to specify what the relevancy of the rest of the diary would have been and how it would have aided the jury's understanding.”
• explaining that the “[f]ailure to challenge the weight of the evidence presented at trial in an oral or written motion prior to sentencing or in a post-sentence motion will result in waiver of the claim.”
• finding weight and sufficiency challenges waived for failure to include them in statement of questions presented
• finding weight and sufficiency challenges waived for failure to include them in statement of questions presented

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Antidormi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-01-23· cited 1,004×
• Commonwealth v. Shull
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-09-13· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Slocum
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-21· cited 115×
• Commonwealth v. Strafford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-08-06· cited 89×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Lynn, W.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-27· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Bond
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-13· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Feese
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-09-18· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Spanier
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-26· cited 12×
• Com. v. Baggetta, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-08-09
• Commonwealth v. Raboin, T., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-09-07
• Com. v. Delamarter, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-09-06

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-19· cited 271×
• Commonwealth v. Trippett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-24· cited 168×
• Commonwealth v. Stallworth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-04· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. Harper
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-05· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Crews
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-21· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Passmore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-30· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Watkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-06-06· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Cardwell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-09-18· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Crews
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Halye
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-06· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Bond
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Vining
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-04· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Pahel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-02-24· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. McLaurin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-25· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-03· cited 28×
• Brown v. Levy
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-04-21· cited 13×