Commonwealth v. Reid

How courts have described this case

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

• reasoning that, “an absolute identity of factual backgrounds” is not required but “a mere de minimis duplication of factual and legal issues is insufficient to establish a logical relationship”
• reasoning that, “an absolute identity of factual backgrounds” is not required but “a mere de minimis duplication of factual and legal issues is insufficient to establish a logical relationship”
• stressing the significance of a substantial duplication of issues of law and fact before a logical relationship can be found
• applying earlier holding from Hude and instructing that courts considering the logical-relationship prong should look at the temporal and logical relationship among the charges to determine whether they arose from a single criminal episode
• separate drug transactions were not same criminal episode where different evidence was required to prove defendant’s guilt in the separate cases
• separate drug transactions were not same criminal episode where different evidence was required to prove defendant’s guilt in the separate cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Perfetto
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-08-30· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-06-11· cited 30×
• Com. v. Copes, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-05-26· cited 7×
• Com. v. Forrester-Westad, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-09-01· cited 1×
• Com. v. Ames, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-03-26

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Champney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-24· cited 563×
• Commonwealth v. Hude
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-11· cited 170×
• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-08-22· cited 153×
• Commonwealth v. Bracalielly
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-16· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Fithian
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-12-17· cited 140×
• Commonwealth v. Nolan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-19· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Anthony
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-08-25· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. George
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-02-15· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Reid
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-01-04· cited 15×