Commonwealth v. Quartman

How courts have described this case

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

• refusal to give Rape Shield Instruction proper when proposed instruction was merely an attempt to present excluded evidence to the jury in a backhanded manner
• “The fundamental right to confront witnesses often gives way . . . to certain evidentiary principles.”
• \The fundamental right to confront witnesses often gives way ... to certain evidentiary principles.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Black
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-11· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Nieves
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-26· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-28· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Dear
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-03· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Boone
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-30· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Rogers, E., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-05-18

Cites

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

• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• United States v. Nixon
  Supreme Court· 1974-07-24· cited 4,095×
• Washington v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,395×
• People v. Mandel
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-12-17· cited 121×
• State v. Green
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-11-16· cited 74×
• State v. Jalo
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1976-12-27· cited 72×
• People v. Blackburn
  California Court of Appeal· 1976-03-29· cited 62×
• People v. Khan
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1978-01-05· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Meas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-07-01· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Duncan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-11· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Strube
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-28· cited 30×
• Shockley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-02-08· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Schaller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-03-13· cited 29×
• People v. Mandel
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1978-03-20· cited 28×
• In the Interest of Nichols
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1978-07-14· cited 27×
• State v. Ryan
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1978-03-14· cited 19×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1978-03-17· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Majorana
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-09-16· cited 9×
• Mandel v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 4×