Commonwealth v. McGuire

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that \it is not merely the consumption of alcohol that is relevant to attack the credibility of a witness\
• holding that “it is not merely the consumption of alcohol that is relevant to attack the credibility of a witness”
• credibility of witness may not be attacked by questions regarding instances of misconduct unrelated to the issue on trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Reichman v. Wallach
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-29· cited 33×
• In Re Interest of M.M.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-02-19· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Pacell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-13· cited 16×
• In the Interest of M.M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-02-02· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. McCue
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-16· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Brady
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-18· cited 6×
• Vosburg v. Keysaw
  Bradford County Court of Common Pleas· 1999-12-10
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-06-18

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Commander
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Russell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Gaddy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Katchmer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Roman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Cheatham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-15· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Waller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-30· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Holland
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Stanley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-14· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Loar
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Tucker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Grimm
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Duffy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-12-22· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Dreibelbis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-09-18· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Godfrey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-03-24· cited 17×
• In the Interest of WRIGHT
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-12· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Cragle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-10· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Steinberg
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-04-16· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Frazier
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 7×