Commonwealth v. Morgan

How courts have described this case

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

• \delay” cognizable under rale only where it causes commencement of trial to be postponed for some period of time beyond time it would have been scheduled absent \delay” in question
• “even if this record might have met the requirements for the grant of . . .an extension, that avenue is not here available to the Commonwealth since it failed to pursue this course”
• “[A]ny occurrences between the filing of the complaint and the commencement of the trial which did not affect the time in which the trial was commenced ..[is] not properly-considered as a .‘delay in the proceedings[.]’ ”
• “[A]ny occurrences between the filing of the complaint and the commencement of the trial which did not affect the time in which the trial was commenced ..[is] not properly-considered as a .‘delay in the proceedings[.]’ ”
• “delay” only cognizable for purposes of speedy trial rule where it causes, either directly or indirectly, commencement of trial to be postponed for some period of time beyond the time it would have been scheduled absent the “delay”
• “the concern of the Rule is the delay in the commencement of trial and section (d) seeks to prevent the Commonwealth from being accountable for those delays in the commencement of trial where they result from actions properly attributable to the defense”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Hoey
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1994-09-22· cited 163×
• Commonwealth v. Mills
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-20· cited 136×
• Commonwealth v. Barbour, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-07-18· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Polsky
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-03-13· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Lamb
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-01-14· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Terfinko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-13· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Eck
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-07· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. McKenna
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-30· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Brightwell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-08· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Leatherbury
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-08-17· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Aycock
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-16· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Bytheway
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-08-28· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Manley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-06-25· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Brant
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-11-30· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Perry
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-12· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Chapman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-11-09· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Fox
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-28· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Gorham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-19· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Ressler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 8×
• State v. Charette
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1981-09-04· cited 7×