Commonwealth v. Steward

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that videotape was not necessary as “best evidence” of events when an eyewitness to the occurrence testified based on his own personal observations
• holding that videotape was not necessary as “best evidence” of events when an eyewitness to the occurrence testified based on his own personal observations
• holding video of theft was not “crucial evidence” when security officer “observe[d] appellant’s action contemporaneously with the crime”
• best evidence rule was inapplicable where “witness observed the theft himself and did not rely on the videotape” in describing the incident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Dent
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-25· cited 149×
• Commonwealth v. Giron
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-01-31· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. Alford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-07-26· cited 63×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Uderra
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-01-26· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. York
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-09· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-04-16· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Hodge
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-08· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Rodriquez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-03· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Santiago
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-08-27· cited 5×