Commonwealth v. Adams

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that \whether a dismissal is warranted turns on whether the Commonwealth intended to deprive the defendant of a fair trial\
• holding that “whether a dismissal is warranted turns on whether the Commonwealth intended to deprive the defendant of a fair trial”
• distinguishing between prosecutorial error that could be corrected in a future trial versus intentional subversion of the court process, which bars retrial
• affirming trial court's conclusion that dismissal would be overly harsh where trial court found no evidence of police or prosecution attempting to sabotage Appellant's case
• distinguishing between prosecutorial error that could be corrected in a future trial versus intentional subversion of the court process, which bars retrial
• explaining our deferential review of credibility determinations in the context of a double jeopardy ruling

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lynn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-28· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Byrd
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-29· cited 14×
• Com. v. Landis, W., Jr.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-24· cited 3×
• Com. v. Byrd, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-29
• Commonwealth v. Johnson, K., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-05-19
• Com. v. Boyer, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-10-17

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Arizona v. Youngblood
  Supreme Court· 1989-01-23· cited 3,366×
• Commonwealth v. Simpson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-26· cited 361×
• Commonwealth v. Lambert
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-10-18· cited 264×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-18· cited 264×
• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-03-25· cited 235×
• Commonwealth v. Burke
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-17· cited 204×
• Commonwealth v. Moose
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-22· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-05-19· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Snyder
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-01-22· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Kearns
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-07-12· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Graham
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-01-29· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-22· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Wood
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-07-02· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-11-03· cited 21×