Commonwealth v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• holding victim and his family waived absolute privilege afforded sexual assault counselor’s records by permitting prosecution to have access to records
• affirming the Superior Court’s holding that a defendant was entitled to the complainant/witness’s mental health records provided to the Commonwealth possibly indicating the complainant/witness was a pathological liar in order to confront the witness at trial
• uncorroborated testimony of sexual assault victim, if believed by the trier of fact, is sufficient to support convictions even if the defense presents countervailing evidence
• Therapist's diagnosis of victim as a \pathological liar\ was relevant and admissible to impeach victim's credibility.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Tilghman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-29· cited 181×
• Commonwealth v. Castelhun
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-14· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Travers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-03-26· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Glass
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-06-20· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-11-21· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Bishop
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-24· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Diodoro
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-05-26· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Revere
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-28· cited 43×
• V.B.T. v. Family Services of Western Pennsylvania
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-01-22· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Mejia-Arias
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-14· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Savage
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-05-16· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Laudenberger
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-05-27· cited 17×
• Rue v. K-Mart Corp.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-03-20· cited 16×
• Carroll v. Ringgold Education Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-07-29· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Flanagan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-28· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Parmelee
  Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2005-06-30· cited 1×
• Crimmins v. PennDot
  Adams County Court of Common Pleas· 2003-02-13
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Conforti, M.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-10-23
• Commonwealth v. Reid, A., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-08-16

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-31· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. French
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-11· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-11-23· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. French
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-20· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Lloyd
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-10-19· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Rush
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-07-10· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Gibbs
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-06-13· cited 7×