Commonwealth v. Collins

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the police did not act with due diligence when they had received information that the defendant was staying with a relative in another city and waited about two months before requesting the police in that city assist in arresting the defendant
• holding that the police did not act with due diligence when they had received information that the defendant was staying with a relative in another city and waited about two months before requesting the police in that city assist in arresting the defendant
• failure of prosecutor's office to locate defendant
• failure of prosecutor's office to locate defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Frazier
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-02-07· cited 159×
• State v. Wallace
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1980-11-19· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Dorsey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-29· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Winn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-19· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Williamson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-08-31· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Webb
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-13· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Poindexter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-07-16· cited 2×
• Com. v. Spencer, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-12-16

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-28· cited 191×
• Commonwealth v. Byrd
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Martofel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-29· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Hatten
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-08-02· cited 9×