Commonwealth v. Cooley

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Commonwealth did not lay a proper foundation for admissibility of a writing as a past recollection recorded where it was not established that witness had determined that the writing was accurate
• prosecutor failed to show on the record that detective had no present recollection of contents of writing after reviewing it
• witness must “lack a present recollection of the event” to justify admission of record of past recollection
• delay of three and one-half years
• delay of three and one-half years

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-20· cited 330×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-29· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Holloway
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-10-01· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Cargo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-23· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Galloway
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-07-16· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Shaw
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 59×
• Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Hassinger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-03-02· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-02-01· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Sal-Mar Amusements, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-09-01· cited 22×
• Hammel v. Christian
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-29· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-22· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Schuster
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 7×
• B.D.B., Inc. v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-04· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Sherman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-01· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Hawk
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-09· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Montevecchio
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-11-06· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. French
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-05-27· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. DeBlase
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-01-07· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Cooley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-14
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1980-02-20