Commonwealth v. Anderson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, where the trial court dismissed all charges against the defendant for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, the order was final
• stating that an order dismissing for lack of jurisdiction “serves to put the litigants out of court, thus making the order final.”
• reversing dismissal of charges against adult for offenses committed as a child where the appellant was responsible for the delay due to his “deliberate avoidance of the justice system”
• reversing dismissal of charges against adult for offenses committed as a child where the appellant was responsible for the delay due to his “deliberate avoidance of the justice system”
• defendant tried as adult where his age at date of arrest was beyond Juvenile Act’s jurisdictional definition of child
• defendant denied himself opportunity to be tried by juvenile court system by fleeing prosecution until the age of majority; thus, trial court had subject matter jurisdiction over him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ramos
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-03-20· cited 33×
• Com. v. Renninger, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-01-03· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Monaco
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-02-24· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Doolin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-27· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-07-25· cited 8×
• Com. v. Torres, L.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-09-27

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Commonwealth v. Tilley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-18· cited 151×
• United States v. David Aguirre
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-06-07· cited 60×
• Commonwealth. v. Green
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-02-27· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-19· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Iafrate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-09· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Rosario
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-27· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-07· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Swartz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-12· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Sims
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-19· cited 9×