Commonwealth v. Marsh

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that safety of the confidential informant is a controlling factor in determining whether to reveal his identity
• holding that because Marsh failed to make the threshold showing, “his motion should have been rejected without any consideration of the other factors necessary to make a balanced evaluation”
• stating that safety of the confidential informant is a controlling factor in determining whether to reveal his or her identity
• stating that safety of the CI is a controlling factor in determining whether to reveal his identity
• stating that the safety of the CI is a controlling factor in determining whether to reveal his or her identity
• holding defendant failed to establish material need for identity disclosure where he presented no evidence, but baldly averred that the testimony was relevant to his defense of mistaken identity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ellison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-06-20· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Watson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-05-01· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Jordan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-09-22· cited 30×
• Com. v. Bright, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-06-22· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Koonce
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-15· cited 13×
• Com. v. Sutton, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-03-19

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roviaro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-03-25· cited 3,599×
• Commonwealth v. Markman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-02-21· cited 189×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-09-26· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-12-15· cited 93×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Fox v. Swing
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-11-28· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Herron
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-24· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Bing
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-05-19· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Weidenmoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-04-04· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Roebuck
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-07-31· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Payne
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-22· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Lloyd
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-10-31· cited 12×
• Com. v. Martin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-03-05· cited 2×