Commonwealth v. Lewis

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when a party raises an issue on cross-examination, the trial court may permit redirect examination on that issue in order to dispel any unfair inferences
• observing that conclusion that statements at issue “were undoubtedly hearsay .. . does not end our consideration of this issue,” before analyzing admissibility of statements under Chambers
• holding inadmissible an anonymous statement against penal interest because “an anonymous statement subjects no one to any responsibility and, therefore, the key to the reliability — that someone could himself suffer by this statement — is absent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ricky HARRIS v. STATE of Tennessee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2010-01-14· cited 276×
• Miller v. Brass Rail Tavern, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-24· cited 198×
• State v. Kiser
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2009-05-13· cited 158×
• Commonwealth v. Dreibelbis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-03-13· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. James
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-09· cited 88×
• Clark v. Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 2008-07-24· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Cristina
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Carpenter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-19· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Slaton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-01· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Drayton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-10-01· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-25· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Ayala
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-03· cited 16×
• Johnston v. Love
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1996-07-22· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-22· cited 8×
• Miller v. Brass Rail Tavern, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-06-23· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Ritter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 4×
• Hlatky v. Jaeger
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 2007-12-17

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Commonwealth v. Futch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 397×
• Commonwealth v. Yount
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 177×
• Commonwealth v. Kravitz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-04-18· cited 174×
• Commonwealth v. Garrett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-09-27· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Burns
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-01-21· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-04-07· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Simpson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Townsend
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-01-09· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Clinton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-01-16· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Ford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Finnie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-07-01· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Nash
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Sauders
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1957-10-07· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Tenbroeck
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1919-06-21· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Crosby
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-30· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Deyell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-05-04· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Rogozinski
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-12-29· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. May
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 10×