Commonwealth v. Tavares

How courts have described this case

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

• witness with cerebral palsy testified “by spelling out words letter by letter” using “speak and spell” device

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Donahue
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-08-27· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-09· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Sheppard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-09-30· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Smolko
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-10-10· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Balog
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-13· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Fouse
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-08· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Wax
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-16· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-22· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Mescall
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-06-06· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Rink
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-05-02· cited 9×
• McDonough
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-08-11· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Barnes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-07-22· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Lebo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-06-13· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Black
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-24· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-15· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Cummings
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-01-12· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Pal
  Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2015-01-09· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Barud
  Alleghany County Court of Common Pleas· 1994-09-19
• Commonwealth v. Rossi
  Butler County Court of Common Pleas· 1995-01-20

Cites

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

• Grayned v. City of Rockford
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 4,586×
• Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-03· cited 3,694×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• United States v. Mazurie
  Supreme Court· 1975-01-21· cited 1,043×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-20· cited 164×
• Commonwealth v. Sessoms
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-07· cited 159×
• Commonwealth v. Heinbaugh
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-22· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Westcott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-02-19· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-03· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-01· cited 24×
• People v. Roberts
  California Court of Appeal· 1972-06-26· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Dodge
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-15· cited 23×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1986-08-08· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Bristow
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-15· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Tyson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-18· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Speicher
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-25· cited 13×
• State v. Thomas
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-08-03· cited 12×
• People v. Hernandez
  California Court of Appeal· 1971-07-12· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Keaton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-28· cited 12×