Commonwealth v. Cassidy

How courts have described this case

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• finding of incapacity to make knowing and conscious refusal based upon combined effects of alcohol and a prescription drug required expert testimony because those effects are not matters of common knowledge
• medical testimony is required to prove the effects of blood pressure medication when combined with alcohol and failure to so provide is insufficient to carry the burden of proving an unconscious and unknowing refusal to take a blood alcohol test
• side effects of prescription medication were not matters of common knowledge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• COM., DEPT. OF TRANSP. v. Fiester
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-11-28· cited 34×
• Larkin v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-30· cited 23×
• COM., DEPT. OF TRANSP. v. Hoover
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-04-03· cited 22×
• COM., DEPT. OF TRANSP. v. Moss
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-13· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Derhammer
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-03· cited 11×
• Com., DOT, Bur. of Dr. Lic. v. Mease
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-24· cited 9×
• COM., DEPT. OF TRANSP. v. Beatty
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-25· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Rogers
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-27· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Fleming
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-09-09· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Patton
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-27· cited 1×
• Reed v. PennDOT
  Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas· 1992-07-30

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Waigand v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-09-02· cited 64×
• Savoy v. Beneficial Consumer Discount Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-12· cited 37×
• Wells v. Pittsburgh Board of Public Education
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-27· cited 26×
• Bureau of Traffic Safety v. Dauer
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-08· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Struzzeri
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-06· cited 10×
• Petro v. Kennedy Township Board of Commissioners
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-11· cited 10×
• Schuerch v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-01-03· cited 4×