Commonwealth v. Copeland

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[a] witness’s criminal record long has been considered a necessary and valuable tool for the defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ostrosky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-01-04· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Mejia-Arias
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-14· cited 24×
• Com. v. T.J.W., Jr. Appeal of: C.W.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-24
• Commonwealth v. Gesslein
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 2013-12-20
• Mezzacappa, T. v. Northampton Co., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-04-25

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Commonwealth v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-09· cited 417×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-29· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Moose
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-22· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-03· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-29· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Baxter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-25· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Borders
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-27· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Kimball
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-09-19· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Dawson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-18· cited 4×