Commonwealth v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that medical experts may testify to opinions based upon “reports of others which are not in evidence, but which the expert customarily relies upon in the practice of his profession”
• noting that medical experts may testify to opinions based upon “reports of others which are not in evidence, but which the expert customarily relies upon in the practice of his profession”
• a psychiatrist may base his opinion on reports which were not in evidence prepared by psychologists
• medical experts may base opinions on reports of others not in evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Chambers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-11-04· cited 238×
• Commonwealth v. Clemmons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-28· cited 135×
• Bolus v. United Penn Bank
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-05· cited 122×
• McManamon v. Washko
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-08-31· cited 112×
• Yacoub v. Lehigh Valley Medical Associates, P.C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-08-01· cited 111×
• State v. Peacher
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-07-14· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Vandivner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-01-23· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Bruno
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Daniels
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-27· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Trill
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-12· cited 82×
• Primavera v. Celotex Corp.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-07· cited 76×
• Gunn v. Grossman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-02-23· cited 71×
• City of Philadelphia v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-10-19· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Fromal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-22· cited 68×
• Cohen v. Albert Einstein Medical Center
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-06-11· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. duPont
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-20· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Gullett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-12-10· cited 60×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Maconeghy Jr., K.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-10-18· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Weidenmoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-04-04· cited 53×
• Jones v. Constantino
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-07-28· cited 52×

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Gilbert v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,797×
• Vincent E. Jenkins v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1962-06-07· cited 218×
• Isaac L. James, Jr. v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-06-20· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Woodhouse
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-09-26· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Whiting
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-07-02· cited 118×
• Rhozier T. Brown, Jr. v. United States of America, John D. Irby v. United States of America, Robert L. Jones v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1967-06-12· cited 100×
• Mason v. Ship Blaireau
  Supreme Court· 1804-03-18· cited 98×
• Chin Kay v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1963-03-04· cited 89×
• United States v. Ernest Earl Sterling
  Third Circuit· 1966-12-15· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Mosler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1846-11-20· cited 70×
• Will Parks Clay and Mattie Bell Anderson v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1957-10-28· cited 54×
• Murray v. Siegal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-12-03· cited 54×
• Schooler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1943-05-13· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-06-01· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Updegrove
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-03-17· cited 39×
• Gray v. Bird
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1964-06-18· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Lance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-04-18· cited 25×