Commonwealth v. Delbridge

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining judicial competency investigations apply in cases where sexual abuse complainants are young children because child’s memory is uniquely susceptible to falsely implanted suggestions which may cause child difficulty in distinguishing fact from fantasy when called to testify
• “An expert may testify to assist the factfinder in evaluating competency in those cases where taint is present. Here, as no proof of taint was demonstrated, expert testimony was unnecessary.”
• stating “[a]llegations are not evidence”
• stating, “[a]llegations are not evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Mouzon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-08-21· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. Huggins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-05-07· cited 140×
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Dengler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-30· cited 96×
• Middletown Township v. Lands of Stone
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-27· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Pena
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-10-31· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-04-08· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Lukowich
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-26· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Boich
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-10-06· cited 30×
• Com. v. Saez, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-12-20· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-08-27· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Alston
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-13· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Kriner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-01-02· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Tyrrell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-01-17· cited 8×
• Com. v. Meredith, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-10-15· cited 3×
• Com. v. Mabus, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-08-07· cited 3×
• In re Denture Adhesive Cream Litigation
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 2014-04-11
• Commonwealth v. McGinnis, R., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-12-01

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• Idaho v. Wright
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-27· cited 2,081×
• Grady v. Frito-Lay, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-31· cited 277×
• Buffalo Township v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 250×
• Rosche v. McCoy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-11-25· cited 173×
• Commonwealth v. Delbridge
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-25· cited 165×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-07-05· cited 93×