Commonwealth v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• admission of four prior robbery convictions in a robbery trial held to be an abuse of discretion
• abuse of discretion in allowing impeachment; although credibility was significant issue, crimes were 8 and 10 years old and were for same crime as crime being prosecuted; Commonwealth had testimony of other witnesses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Randall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-09· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Richardson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-15· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Whitner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-25· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Bunch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-25· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Kearse
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-03-02· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Gordon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-02· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Gallagher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-29· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Zabala
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-11· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-01· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Toomey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-10-21· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Mistretta
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-16· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Jennings
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-09· cited 4×