Commonwealth v. Ward

How courts have described this case

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

• emphasizing that a defendant has fundamental right to present evidence of third person's motive to commit the crime charged so long as the evidence is relevant and does not violate the rules of evidence
• reiterating defendant has fundamental right to present evidence of third person’s motive, provided evidence is relevant and not subject to exclusion under established evidentiary rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Pander
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-17· cited 153×
• Commonwealth v. Cosnek
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-24· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Tielsch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-23· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Foley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-02-15· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Matroni
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-19· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-03· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Chamberlain
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-11· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. McMaster
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-10-20· cited 28×
• Com. v. Gross, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-10-14· cited 25×
• Com. v. Herring, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-03-07· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Savage
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-03-07· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Rashid
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-04-21· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Kacsmar
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-04· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-06· cited 4×
• Com. v. Robinson, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-09-04· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Yale, E., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-04-29
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Conforti, M.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-10-23

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Commonwealth v. Boyle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Adkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Roxberry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-13· cited 48×