Commonwealth v. Weber

How courts have described this case

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

• identifying that the RSL applies to evidence related to a victim’s abortion, as such an event necessarily constitutes past sexual conduct
• “The admissibility of evidence is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court and will be reversed only where there is a clear abuse of discretion.”
• burden of proof is on proponent of evidence to establish its admissibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. DiStefano
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-08-16· cited 268×
• Commonwealth v. Chmiel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-19· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Clemons, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-01-23· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Zugay
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-19· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Allburn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-08· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. D.J.A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-06-05· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Vining
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-04· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. K.S.F.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-08· cited 36×
• Sternberg v. DIXON
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-07-02· cited 23×
• Cooke v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-15· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-07-10· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Beltz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-06-17· cited 22×
• Com. v. Carter, P.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-02-24· cited 1×
• Com. v. DJA
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-06-05
• Com. v. K.S.F.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-08
• People of Michigan v. Lovell Charles Sharpe
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2017-03-16
• Russen v. Palmyra Township-Pike County
  Pike County Court of Common Pleas· 1999-06-18

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-07· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Majorana
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-23· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Killen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-07-31· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Jorgenson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-11-20· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Weber
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-11· cited 11×