Commonwealth v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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

• “true test of unavailability is the unavailability of the witness’s testimony, not his or her person”
• partial lack of memory rendered witness unavailable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-09-07· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Ludwig
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-08· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Melson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-16· cited 30×
• State v. Barela
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1989-09-07· cited 9×
• People v. Pappalardo
  New York Supreme Court· 1991-11-14· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Hook
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-10· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1989-06-22

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Rodgers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-28· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Stasko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Clarkson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-05-27· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Graves
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-14· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-08-27· cited 13×