Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 3/14/1979
Commonwealth v. Graves
Citations
- 398 A.2d 644
- 484 Pa. 29
- 1979 Pa. LEXIS 495
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- exception permits prior testimony to be admitted when a witness who is physically available and competent becomes legally unavailable due to partial or full memory loss
- exception permits prior testimony to be admitted when a witness who is physically available and competent becomes legally unavailable due to partial or full memory loss
- witness who testified at first trial but could not recall events with specificity was declared unavailable due to memory loss
- proper for court to admit former testimony where declarant has partial memory loss because “necessary testimony is admitted with the opponent being permitted to cross-examine the [declarant] both as to his asserted lack of memory as well as to his present testimony”
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Judges: Eagen, Larsen, Manderino, Nix, O'Brien, Pomeroy, Roberts
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15 cases in this archive cite this case.
- State v. SchiappaSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-03-23· cited 122×
- Commonwealth v. TerrySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-02-17· cited 103×
- Commonwealth v. BentleySuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-07· cited 43×
- Commonwealth v. MelsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-16· cited 30×
- Commonwealth v. SantiagoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-20· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. RizzoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-25· cited 14×
- Commonwealth v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-08-27· cited 13×
- Commonwealth v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-08-02· cited 10×
- State v. BarelaCourt of Appeals of Utah· 1989-09-07· cited 9×
- People v. PappalardoNew York Supreme Court· 1991-11-14· cited 9×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-05-27· cited 5×
- Commonwealth v. ShermanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-01· cited 4×
- Commonwealth v. HookSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-10· cited 2×
- Commonwealth v. KnaubSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-20· cited 1×
- Commonwealth v. DavisPhiladelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1989-06-22
Cites
14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Commonwealth v. GravesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 129×
- Commonwealth v. RodgersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-28· cited 127×
- Putnam v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1896-05-04· cited 100×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 94×
- Commonwealth v. TurnerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1957-06-06· cited 61×
- Commonwealth v. HicksSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-01-24· cited 60×
- Commonwealth v. StaskoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 48×
- Commonwealth v. RyhalSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1922-05-25· cited 36×
- Commonwealth v. HicksSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 29×
- Robert Owen McDonnell v. United StatesEighth Circuit· 1973-02-05· cited 21×
- Commonwealth v. ClarksonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-05-27· cited 21×
- Rothrock v. GallaherSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1879-10-06· cited 15×
- Velott v. LewisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1883-03-05· cited 12×
- Reed v. OrtonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1884-02-05· cited 2×
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