Commonwealth v. Lippert

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

• where husband was charged with murdering his wife, testimony regarding declarations of wife as to previous abuse inflicted by husband must be excluded as hearsay
• where husband was charged with murdering his wife, testimony regarding declarations of wife as to previous abuse inflicted by husband must be excluded as hearsay
• error not harmless if improperly admitted evidence not merely cumulative
• error not harmless if improperly admitted evidence not merely cumulative

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• Commonwealth v. Walzack
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Shoatz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-24· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-30· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Wood
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-03· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Reynolds
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-07-13· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-01-30· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Rush
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-17· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Laws
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Myers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-22· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Walloe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 1×