Commonwealth v. Knowles

How courts have described this case

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

• stating, “Whether evidence is too remote in time to be probative … is largely within the discretion of the trial court”
• finding a continuing course of conduct -8- J-S32029-19 despite a gap of five to seven years, because the evidence indicated that “the sexual abuse was resumed when the defendant had an opportunity to be alone with the victim”
• “The prior conduct need not be precisely the same conduct as that giving rise to the criminal charges.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Donoho
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2003-04-03· cited 617×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-01-06· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Wattley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-07-27· cited 41×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Dunkle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-22· cited 162×
• Commonwealth v. Boulden
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-09-28· cited 72×
• Sanford v. State
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1977-02-15· cited 47×
• Vogel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-03-29· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-28· cited 35×
• State v. T.W.
  Montana Supreme Court· 1986-02-25· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Leppard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-26· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Buser
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-25· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Gibson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-27· cited 16×
• State v. Schut
  Washington Supreme Court· 1967-06-08· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Kramer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-11-28· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-17· cited 10×