Commonwealth v. Carter

How courts have described this case

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

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• holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting a state laboratory report, which indicated the presence of cocaine in materials seized from Carter, pursuant to the business records exception
• stating the “Confrontation Clause [is] not congruent with [the rule against] hearsay[.]” (citation omitted)
• police crime lab report fell within firmly rooted business record exception to hearsay rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 2,882×
• Commonwealth v. Charleston
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-06· cited 278×
• Commonwealth v. Vasquez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-03-26· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Watkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-29· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Barton-Martin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-09-08· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-02-22
• Com. v. Smith, N.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-01-15

Cites

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

• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• California v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-23· cited 3,363×
• Bourjaily v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-23· cited 2,639×
• Dutton v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1970-12-15· cited 1,926×
• Palmer v. Hoffman
  Supreme Court· 1943-03-01· cited 1,191×
• Whorton v. Bockting
  Supreme Court· 2007-02-28· cited 725×
• United States v. Paul v. Oates
  Second Circuit· 1977-06-03· cited 472×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-27· cited 322×
• Commonwealth v. Bruce
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-01-04· cited 261×
• Commonwealth v. Slavski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1923-05-27· cited 166×
• Ernest Kay v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1958-05-17· cited 126×
• People v. McClanahan
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2000-04-20· cited 118×
• United States v. Baker
  Eighth Circuit· 1988-09-02· cited 97×
• State v. Kennedy
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-02-17· cited 89×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Fox v. Swing
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-11-28· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Treiber
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-16· cited 78×
• Primavera v. Celotex Corp.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-07· cited 76×
• Echo Acceptance Corp. v. Household Retail Services, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 2001-09-28· cited 74×