Commonwealth v. Lane

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial court erroneously prohibited defense from cross-examining witness on all his crimes, but defense still had full and fair opportunity to cross-examine because jury was already aware that witness had pending crimes which could give rise to a pro-Commonwealth bias
• error in prohibiting cross-examination as to the witness’ pending kidnapping and attempted rape charges was harmless where witness was cross-examined on other pending criminal offenses
• error in prohibiting cross-examination as to the witness' pending kidnapping and attempted rape charges was harmless where witness was cross-examined on other pending criminal offenses
• “It is particularly important that, where the determination of a defendant’s guilt or innocence is dependent upon the credibility of a prosecution witness, an adequate opportunity be afforded to demonstrate through cross-examination that the witness is biased.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-11· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-13· cited 6×
• In the Interest of Dixon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-02-24· cited 4×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-10· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Beasley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-18· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Hamm
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Birch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-23· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-10· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Updegrove
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-03-17· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-12-19· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Sisco
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-14· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-05· cited 32×