Commonwealth v. Malloy

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that only the Commonwealth and the defendant are parties to a criminal case and that victims, witnesses, and others thus lack standing
• holding that the victim of an alleged crime lacks the authority and power to appeal, without the consent of the district attorney, a judicial determination dismissing a complaint for failure of the prosecution to establish at trial a prima facie case
• holding criminal victim was not a party to criminal prosecution and did not have standing to appeal decision dismissing complaint
• discussing roles of crime victim and district attorney in criminal prosecution
• decision of whether or when to bring particular defendant to trial is matter within prosecutor’s discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-07-20· cited 227×
• In Re Ullman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-04-30· cited 200×
• In Re Private Criminal Complaint of Wilson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-06· cited 153×
• Kroen v. Bedway Security Agency, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-03· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Benz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-11-01· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Jury
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-09· cited 33×
• In Re Wood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-10-05· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-29· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-02-17· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Muroski
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-03-10· cited 31×
• In Re: Private Criminal Complaint D. Miles
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-08-28· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Rocco
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-06-30· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Stock
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-08-16· cited 20×
• Koken v. One Beacon Insurance
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-28· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Price
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-30· cited 13×
• Pratter v. Penn Treaty American Corp.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-11-05· cited 13×
• State v. Henry
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1986-04-09· cited 11×
• Thomas v. THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-06-28· cited 11×
• State v. Burns
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-06-16· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Sanico, Inc.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-08-13· cited 10×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Linda R. S. v. Richard D.
  Supreme Court· 1973-03-05· cited 1,991×
• Linda RS v. Richard D.
  Supreme Court· 1973-03-05· cited 1,057×
• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 170×
• Commonwealth v. Hayes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-01· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Pfaff
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Eisemann
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-11· cited 40×
• Piscanio Appeal
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-09-22· cited 39×
• Manning v. Municipal Court of the Roxbury District
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-04-04· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Lezinsky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-23· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Wiggins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-29· cited 17×
• United States Ex Rel. Miller v. Rundle
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1967-06-30· cited 9×