Commonwealth v. Carpenter

How courts have described this case

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

• permitting lay witness opinion regarding voice recognition by acquaintance who identified speaker over telephone
• telephone identification by an acquaintance who then passed the receiver to law enforcement was admissible lay witness evidence
• police officer can identify voice after hearing voice several times over the telephone and talking to defendant once in person
• identity of calling party is generally done by testimony as to witness’s recognition of calling party’s voice
• Identification by acquaintance who then passed receiver to officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Huggins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-05-07· cited 140×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-03· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Nichols
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-06· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-09-17· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Hallowell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. May
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-05· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Hashem
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-04· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Hallowell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-08· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Romansky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-10-31· cited 7×
• In Re: Order Approving the Amendment of Pa Rules of Evidence 901(a), 902(4), 902(6) & 902(12)
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-11-04
• In Re: Order Approving the Amendment of Pa Rule of Evidence 901
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-05-20
• Com. v. Williams, L
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-05-25
• Commonwealth v. Ramos
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 2008-02-19

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• Napue v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-15· cited 4,234×
• Commonwealth v. Clair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 732×
• Commonwealth v. Farquharson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 388×
• Commonwealth v. Stoltzfus
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 382×
• Commonwealth v. Gaddy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 75×
• United States v. Harris
  Third Circuit· 1974-05-30· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Jennings
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 37×
• Burton v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1951-11-13· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Moehring
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-29· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. DeMarco
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Sweeney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-30· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Rose
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-30· cited 12×
• Reach v. National Bedding Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1923-02-19· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. De Rohn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 10×
• Kobierowski v. Commonwealth Mutual Insurance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-05-21· cited 7×
• Limestone Products & Supply Co. v. Tom Brown, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-06-13· cited 6×
• Midland Credit Co. v. White
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-07-21· cited 3×