Commonwealth v. Godfrey

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[wjhether one may have partaken of some liquor is not the test of one’s credibility and is the type of question, whether answered in the affirmative or negative, that may create in the minds of some jurors a most unfavorable inference”
• trial court properly sustained Commonwealth's objection to defendant's attempted question on cross-examination concerning whether witness had consumed alcoholic beverages on the evening in question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Miles v. Ryan
  Third Circuit· 1973-09-04· cited 16×
• In the Interest of M.M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-02-02· cited 15×
• In the Interest of WRIGHT
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-12· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Repyneck
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-07-17· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. McGuire
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-07-23· cited 12×
• O'BRIEN v. Waterman
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1960-07-28· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-01-20· cited 11×
• Peters v. Gagne
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1964-04-30· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-03-18· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Boyance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-09-13· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Kaufhold
  Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas· 1973-05-30
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-06-18

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-05-29· cited 43×
• Stoner v. Penn-Brixite, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-01-14· cited 6×