Commonwealth v. Gonzalez

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that a mistrial was not warranted where a doctor, who was testifying as a Commonwealth witness, attended to a juror after the juror fainted during a doctor’s testimony
• reiterating that where an appellant’s brief fails to provide any discussion of a claim with citation to relevant authority or fails to develop it in any meaningful fashion, that issue is waived
• stating that “[b]ecause all relevant Commonwealth evidence is meant to prejudice a defendant, exclusion is limited to evidence so prejudicial that it would inflame the jury to make a decision based upon something other than the legal propositions relevant to the case.”
• stating that “[b]ecause all relevant Commonwealth evidence is meant to prejudice a defendant, exclusion is limited to evidence so prejudicial that it would inflame the jury to make a decision based upon something other than the legal propositions relevant to the case”
• applying Dillon and finding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by permitting testimony from victim and her sister regarding the appellant’s physical abuse of their mother to explain the delay in reporting sexual abuse
• duplicate numbers and citations to notes of testimony omitted; some brackets added and some retained from source

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hammons, P. v. Ethicon, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-19· cited 33×
• E.M. v. Dep't of Human Servs.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-07-19· cited 6×
• E.M. v. DHS J.K. v. DHS
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-07-19
• Com. v. Kearney, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-07-14
• Com. v. Kline, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-09-05

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Antidormi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-01-23· cited 1,004×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-29· cited 642×
• Commonwealth v. Melvin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-21· cited 419×
• Commonwealth v. Dillon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-06-26· cited 244×
• Commonwealth v. Malloy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-01· cited 183×
• Commonwealth v. Montalvo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-09-24· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-27· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-17· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. McDonald
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-12· cited 44×