Commonwealth v. Edwards

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 “failure to appear in court pursuant to previous court process may [] be considered an act of direct criminal contempt when the person is finally brought to court”
• holding that the failure to appear in court as required by previous court proceedings may be considered an act of direct criminal contempt when the defendant is finally brought to court
• failure to appear in court as required by previous court proceedings may be considered act of direct criminal contempt when defendants were finally brought to court
• under 42 Pa.C.S. § 4132, “failure to appear in court pursuant to previous -7- J-A29009-17 court process” is “an act of direct criminal contempt when the person is finally brought to court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Moody
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-15· cited 19×
• In re Petition to have Burke Submit to a Handwriting Exemplar
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-15

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re Oliver
  Supreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 2,065×
• Cooke v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1925-04-13· cited 880×
• Commonwealth v. Garrison
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-05-05· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Mayberry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 78×
• Altemose Construction Co. v. Building & Construction Trades Council
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-10-20· cited 57×
• Jessup v. Clark
  Third Circuit· 1973-12-12· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Crawford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-09· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Strickler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Cain
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-01· cited 24×
• United States v. Thomas Henry Marra
  Second Circuit· 1973-07-12· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Ferrara
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-21· cited 18×
• Rosenberg Appeal
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-06-18· cited 18×
• Wagner v. Wagner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-07-19· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-02-03· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Shaw
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-23· cited 13×