Commonwealth v. Rolon

How courts have described this case

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

• trial court erred in sustaining claim where it did not know the questions defendant sought to ask and was otherwise unaware of basis of assertion
• the trial court may overrule a claim of constitutional privilege only where the record clearly establishes that the witness is mistaken in believing self-incrimination will occur and that his testimony cannot possibly have such a tendency

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Rolan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-18· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-01· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. McGrogan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-17· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Yabor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-06-29· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Neary
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-17· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Weaver
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-25· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. McGrogan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-21· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. West
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-25· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Fava
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-05· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Long
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-26· cited 1×
• In Re: The Thirty-Fifth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury Pet of: Joshua Morrow
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-26

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Washington v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,395×
• Branzburg v. Hayes
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 2,202×
• Hoffman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-05-28· cited 1,874×
• Webb v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-04· cited 788×
• United States v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-23· cited 345×
• Commonwealth v. Camm
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-05-13· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. DiGiacomo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Greene
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Carrera
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-03-14· cited 59×
• Vowell v. Lopez
  Supreme Court· 1973-04-16· cited 57×
• United States Ex Rel. Carl M. Robinson v. John L. Zelker, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, Stormville, New York
  Second Circuit· 1972-09-28· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Jennings
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-16· cited 18×
• Ralph v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1842-05-15· cited 17×
• Schwinger Appeal
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-07-17· cited 13×