Commonwealth v. Hart

How courts have described this case

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

• nolle pros of original indictment did not prevent Commonwealth from trying and convicting a criminal defendant on a second indictment for the same charges
• double jeopardy did not attach to withdrawn charges because no acquittal or conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. DiPasquale
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-10-03· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Markle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-29· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Rose
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-02-14· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Warlow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-18· cited 8×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Melton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-03-13· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Hart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-05-22· cited 45×
• Farrow ex rel. Farrow v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-12-29· cited 23×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Patrick v. Banmiller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-01-18· cited 18×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Hart v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-03-14· cited 1×