Commonwealth v. Reese

How courts have described this case

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

• “The veracity of a witness may not be impeached by prior arrests which have not led to conviction. . . . [T]o hold that an arrest for an unrelated crime could be used to show a general bias would effectively vitiate the rule against impeaching on the basis of arrests alone.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-03· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Russell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-23· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Gray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-01· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-12-23· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Cragle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-10· cited 12×
• Steinhouse v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-08-24· cited 10×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Katchmer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Coades
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Ross
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-04-23· cited 41×
• Stout v. Rassel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1798-10-15· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-28· cited 17×