Commonwealth v. Butler

How courts have described this case

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

• holding trial court erred in refusing to allow defendant to cross-examine Commonwealth witness regarding civil suit pending between defendant and witness
• holding the trial court erred in refusing to allow the defendant to cross-examine a Commonwealth witness regarding the civil suit then pending between the defendant and the witness
• holding selective prosecution claim “is unrelated to the determination of guilt or innocence” and defendant raising such claim “does not have the right to present it to the jury”
• explaining selective prosecution claim should be raised in pretrial motion to dismiss
• defendant who had filed a civil suit against a prosecution witness should have been permitted to cross-examine the witness regarding bias arising from the civil claim
• error not to permit defendant to cross examine detective who had interest in civil suit that would be affected by outcome of criminal trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lambert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-12-18· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Ogrod
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-30· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Nolen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-22· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Birch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-23· cited 72×
• Polett, M., Aplt. v. Public Communications Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-10-27· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-06-11· cited 30×
• Hatfield v. Continental Imports, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-20· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Stetler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-03· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-28· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Peterfield
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-14· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-02-26· cited 11×
• In the Interest of Dixon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-02-24· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Celano
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-08-04· cited 4×

Cites

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

• Blackledge v. Perry
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-20· cited 1,945×
• Ford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1926-10-29· cited 470×
• United States v. Philip Berrigan, in No. 72-1938, and Elizabeth McAlister Appeal of Elizabeth McAlister In
  Third Circuit· 1973-06-27· cited 294×
• United States v. Al Taylor
  Second Circuit· 1977-10-03· cited 177×
• Commonwealth v. Capitolo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-24· cited 89×
• United States v. Herman v. Krezdorn
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-02-27· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Hamm
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Cheatham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-15· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-10· cited 60×
• United States v. Roberto Flores-Rodriguez
  Second Circuit· 1956-10-01· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Bryant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-05-10· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-01· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Russo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1957-04-15· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Updegrove
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-03-17· cited 39×
• United States v. Wallace
  Eighth Circuit· 1978-06-13· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Mimms
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Sisco
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-14· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-10· cited 36×
• In Re Oxman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-17· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-05· cited 32×