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.

• holding that new law which extended statute of limitations from two years to five years was not applied in a retroactive manner to the appellant because a criminal statute of limitations is an act of legislative grace and not of right
• amended statute of limitations was not retroactively applied where the original statutory period had not yet expired
• amendment extending statute of limitations for rape from two to five years applied to all prosecutions which were not already time barred under former two year limitations period
• amendment extending statute of limitations for rape from two to five years applied to all prosecutions which were not already time barred under former two year limitations period
• “Only where a vested right or contractual obligation is involved is a statute applied ‘retroactively’ when it is applied to a condition existing on its effective date which resulted from events which occurred prior to that date.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Russo
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1992-06-02· cited 204×
• State v. Skakel
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-01-24· cited 153×
• Commonwealth v. Russell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-12· cited 81×
• State v. Cookman
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1996-08-15· cited 59×
• Alexander v. COM., DEPT. OF TRANSP.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-08-15· cited 45×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Childs, W.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-07-19· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Purcell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-21· cited 34×
• State v. Morales
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2010-06-04· cited 32×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2006-12-29· cited 29×
• State v. Casaretto
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1991-11-05· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Rose
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-11-25· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Riding
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-06-11· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Palmer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-05-11· cited 17×
• Doe v. Roe
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-05-23· cited 17×
• State v. Petrucelli
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1991-03-22· cited 16×
• El Pueblo de Puerto Rico v. Candelario Ayala
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 2003-11-08· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Presley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-12-16· cited 4×
• Com. v. Martz, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-04-28· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Welsh
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-09-15· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. O'Donnell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-11-17

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Creighan v. Pittsburgh
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1957-05-27· cited 109×
• State v. Hodgson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-09-03· cited 26×
• People v. Lewis
  California Court of Appeal· 1986-05-06· cited 23×
• United States v. Kurzenknabe
  D. New Jersey· 1955-12-02· cited 21×
• People v. Sample
  California Court of Appeal· 1984-11-20· cited 20×
• Rose v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1986-08-13· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Guimento
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-29· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Baysore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-03· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Patterson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-09-22· cited 12×
• Rubin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-02-13· cited 8×