Commonwealth v. Simmons

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that privilege applies to communication with attorney’s agent when it is for the purpose of facilitating legal advice
• holding section 5944 is an absolute privilege from disclosure, including in camera review
• holding section 5944 is an absolute privilege from disclosure, including in camera review
• vacating trial court order for production of records because production of whole file was ordered even though many documents in file were not privileged
• finding confidential communications by alleged child victim to any member of a treatment team organized to treat the mentally ill and supervised by a licensed psychiatrist protected from disclosure to a criminal defendant
• records that are privileged under psychiatrist/psychologist-patient privilege are not subject to in camera review by the trial court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

27 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• In the Interest of S.T.S., Jr.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-08-15· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. duPont
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-20· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Cook
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-11-29· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Kopicz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-19· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Brister
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-22· cited 30×
• Com. v. Cook, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-04-07· cited 27×
• Farrell, J. v. Regola, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-11-08· cited 26×
• Com. v. Segarra, B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-02-10· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-04-02· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Shearer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-06-20· cited 17×
• State v. Cameron Albarelli
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2016-11-18· cited 14×
• M. v. State Board of Medicine
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-02-26· cited 10×
• Behar v. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2011-03-31· cited 10×
• Pasquini, B. v. Fairmount Behavioral Health System
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-03-25· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Makara
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-08-26· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Berger
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-07-14· cited 6×
• In re of L.F.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-04-19· cited 5×
• Tavella-Zirilli, K. v. Ratner Companies
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-12-08· cited 5×
• Lebovitz v. Hartford Insurance
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 2013-01-14· cited 4×
• Rogers, G. v. Thomas, L.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-05-11· cited 1×