Commonwealth v. Washington

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting claim that court erred in reinstructing the jury in lieu of responding with a yes or no answer
• no abuse of discretion in allowing impeachment; were two opposite versions of events and defendant’s tactic was to attack prosecution’s chief witness by accusations of criminal activity and fraudulent activity
• \[Ilt is the conviction which is relevant to the jury's determination of credibility ... the reception of plea evidence would introduce a collateral issue which could only confuse a jury.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Randall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-09· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Davalos
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-02· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Hartey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-03-16· cited 32×
• SCARBOROUGH BY SCARBOROUGH v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-11-28· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Bunch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-25· cited 18×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-10-23· cited 7×
• People v. Gomez
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2008-09-04· cited 5×
• Com. v. Washington
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-25

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• Commonwealth v. Bighum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 319×
• Evans v. Otis Elevator Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-03-13· cited 145×
• Commonwealth v. Roots
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 127×
• Gregg v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-05-24· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Snyder
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-06-28· cited 29×
• Worthington v. Oberhuber
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-01-04· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 26×
• Rose v. Hoover
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-12-11· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Fontaine
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-12-28· cited 17×
• Reilly v. POACH
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-03· cited 15×
• Carl v. Kurtz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Henson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-09-07· cited 7×