Commonwealth v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Commonwealth made a good faith effort to produce live testimony where it called and questioned a witness who “steadfastly refused to answer any questions or to read any prior statements to refresh his recollection”
• indicating that evidentiary rulings are subject to an abuse-of-discretion review, rather than a de novo one

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Commonwealth v. Cruz-Centeno
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-04· cited 332×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Bazemore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-16· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Wharton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-04-28· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Bailey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-18· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-09-07· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Baez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-10-02· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Melson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-16· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Bujanowski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-07· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-02-26· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Potts
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-08· cited 1×