Commonwealth v. Melson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that entry of stipulation as to affair between witness and defendant was adequate to cure failure to cross-examine witness on affair and possible revenge motive
• stating that failure to develop an argument constitutes waiver of claim
• witness’ refusal to testify despite a court order to do so constitutes unavailability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Cruz-Centeno
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-04· cited 332×
• Commonwealth v. Luktisch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-25· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-01-13· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-09-07· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Herrick
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-04-25· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Campion
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-29· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. A.W. Robl Transport
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-02-17· cited 19×
• Blasi v. Attorney General of Com. of Pennsylvania
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2000-10-02· cited 9×
• Plastipak Packaging, Inc. v. DePasquale
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-26· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-13· cited 6×

Cites

38 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• California v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-23· cited 3,363×
• Snyder v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-08· cited 2,822×
• Bourjaily v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-23· cited 2,639×
• Duren v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-09· cited 2,373×
• Idaho v. Wright
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-27· cited 2,081×
• Barber v. Page
  Supreme Court· 1968-04-29· cited 1,846×
• White v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1992-01-15· cited 1,508×
• Mancusi v. Stubbs
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 704×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-17· cited 216×
• Commonwealth v. Sanford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-30· cited 160×
• Commonwealth v. Petras
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-11-30· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Rodgers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-28· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-05-27· cited 121×
• Commonwealth v. Henry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-02-08· cited 120×
• Commonwealth v. Bazemore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-16· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Scarborough
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Gordon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-30· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. French
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-11· cited 67×