Commonwealth v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant not entitled to new trial where fact that trial transcript is unavailable was direct result of defendant’s status as fugitive for 10 years
• defendant not entitled to new trial where trial transcript unavailable because he was fugitive for ten years
• “a defendant cannot benefit in any manner from his own decision to flee from justice”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Brenes
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2004-04-29· cited 5×
• State v. Goree
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 2003-04-01· cited 4×
• Reilly v. Ernst & Young LLP
  Butler County Court of Common Pleas· 2003-11-19· cited 2×
• Dubose v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2009-11-06· cited 1×
• Com. v. Jenkins, W.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-12-09

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Diaz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1912-02-19· cited 1,035×
• Taylor v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-11-05· cited 580×
• Hardy v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1964-01-06· cited 335×
• Crosby v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-13· cited 239×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-27· cited 64×
• Falk v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1899-12-05· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Goldsmith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-04· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. DeSimone
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Deemer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-21· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Bond
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-23· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Doleno
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-10· cited 17×