Commonwealth v. Tyler

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that no error occurred at the preliminary hearing because evidence in addition to hearsay evidence was presented
• preliminary hearing serves to avoid incarceration or trial of defendant unless sufficient evidence exists to establish that crime was committed and to connect defendant with crime
• “Once [an] appellant has gone to trial and been found guilty of the crime, any defect in the preliminary hearing is rendered immaterial[.]”
• defendant’s inability to test credibility of hearsay declarant through cross-examination at preliminary hearing did not render proceeding constitutionally infirm because, credibility is not an issue at preliminary hearings
• \[The right to confrontation is a trial right.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Carmody
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-15· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Ricker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-07-17· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Wood
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-03· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Peer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-28· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Hlatky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-25· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Fewell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-02-10· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Fox
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-01-14· cited 41×
• Sheriff v. Witzenburg
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2006-11-09· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Boring
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-08-23· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-13· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-04-30· cited 37×
• In Re Shahan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-08-13· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Ricker, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-09-28· cited 27×
• Cardenas v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1991-05-23· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-22· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Schultz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-01-22· cited 22×
• Com. v. Rivera, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-05-24· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Kohlie
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-10-22· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Childress
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-26· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-09-04· cited 10×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pennsylvania v. Ritchie
  Supreme Court· 1987-02-24· cited 2,521×
• Commonwealth v. Wojdak
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-10-18· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Hetherington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 110×
• Commonwealth of Pa. v. Mullen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 82×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Buchanan v. Verbonitz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-10· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Rick
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-22· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Troop
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-09· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. McCullough
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-01· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Lavern Branch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-08-21· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-20· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Laskaris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-16· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Hansell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-01-21· cited 13×