Commonwealth v. Heath

How courts have described this case

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

• “When a witness testifies that someone said something to him and the purpose is not to show that what was said was true but only that it had a particular effect on the witness, the testimony is not hearsay.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Wax
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-16· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Whiting
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-11-09· cited 7×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-30· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Yost
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Sampson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Ryan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-13· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Tselepis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-06-13· cited 37×
• United States v. Rosario Maxine Romero Herrera
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-08-08· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Douglass
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-01-21· cited 8×