Commonwealth v. Newman

How courts have described this case

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

• scope of voir dire rests within sound discretion of trial court and will not be reversed on appeal absent a gross abuse of discretion
• offer of proof must fully state purpose for which evidence is being offered and party cannot later argue that evidence is admissible for purpose not articulated in offer of proof

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Phillips
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-03-05· cited 258×
• Commonwealth v. Cottam
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-17· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-27· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Leib
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-14· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Woods
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-16· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Metts
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-06· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Slocum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-05-22· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-06· cited 4×
• Ciccotta v. Perry Manufacturing Inc.
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1995-08-30
• Commonwealth v. Shuman
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 2007-03-13