Commonwealth v. Willis

How courts have described this case

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

• child's prior consistent statements may be admissible to rebut what jury may presume to be inherent in any child's account of such abuse, including decay of original memory
• the evidence presented in pretrial proceedings considerably reduced the time frame at issue
• even unimpeached testimony of a child-victim may be corroborated by prior consistent statement
• even unimpeached testimony of a child-victim may be corroborated by prior consistent statement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-08-08· cited 261×
• Commonwealth v. Hunzer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-01-12· cited 211×
• Commonwealth v. Dunkle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-22· cited 162×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-12-19· cited 161×
• Commonwealth v. Burno, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-02-22· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Bishop
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-24· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Bond
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-13· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-04-24· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-07-06· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Polston
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-10· cited 34×
• Pursell v. Horn
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 2002-02-01· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-08· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Jubilee
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-07· cited 17×
• Cominsky v. Donovan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-04-06· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Powers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-05-16· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Moyers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-02-26· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Doa
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-01-11· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Loner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-28· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Fielder
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-07-20· cited 10×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1992-01-30· cited 10×

Cites

57 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gilbert v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,797×
• Commonwealth v. Devers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-27· cited 872×
• Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-10· cited 739×
• Rosche v. McCoy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-11-25· cited 173×
• United States v. John Philip Cerone, Sr.
  Seventh Circuit· 1972-02-28· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Capitolo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-24· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-01-05· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Darden
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-06· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Bennett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-04-12· cited 75×
• Gordon v. Rhay
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Patskin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-01-05· cited 70×
• Hester v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1877-10-02· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Ravenell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 65×
• United States ex rel. Jackson v. Martin
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Pearsall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-11-18· cited 53×
• Keefer v. Byers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-03-22· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Berrios
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-24· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-02-26· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Scoleri
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-07-01· cited 48×