Commonwealth v. Martin

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that this Court may disregard an appellant’s failure to satisfy Rule 904(d)
• addressing the merits of an appeal where the notice of appeal indicated that the appeal was from a vacated order but the appellant's brief indicated that the appeal was from a later, valid order
• criminal conspiracy merges with attempted rape since both are inchoate crimes under Chapter 9 of the Crimes Code
• notice of appeal stated erroneously that appeal was from sentencing order that was vacated one month later in resentencing order
• “It is implicit in Pennsylvania Rule of Appellate Procedure 904, which governs the content of the notice of appeal, that the correct date of the order appealed should be included in the notice of appeal.”
• although appellant’s notice of appeal was taken from vacated order, court addressed merits of case despite procedural misstep where it was obvious from appellant’s brief that he was appealing later, valid order

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-04· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Graves
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-05-09· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Merrick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-23· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Strong
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-04-23· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Watts
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-23· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-17· cited 14×
• State v. Boss
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1985-04-03· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Shannon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-10-28· cited 8×
• Siana, S. v. Noah Hill, LLC
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-08-21· cited 7×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• General Mills, Inc. v. Snavely
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-04-14· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-14· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Welch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Gaus
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-04· cited 17×
• Ney v. Ney
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-02· cited 1×