Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 10/20/1976
Commonwealth v. Roundtree
Citations
- 364 A.2d 1359
- 469 Pa. 241
- 1976 Pa. LEXIS 754
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that an attorney’s failure to move to quash an indictment despite a delay of over six years constituted ineffective assistance of counsel because, inter alia, the failure could not be regarded as a strategic maneuver
- proper procedure for objecting to length of delay in being brought to trial is a motion to quash
- death of eyewitness and discarding of crucial records
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Judges: Jones, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Manderino
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41 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Tyrone Werts v. Donald T. Vaughn the District Attorney of the County of Philadelphia the Attorney General of the State of PennsylvaniaThird Circuit· 2000-09-15· cited 735×
- Commonwealth v. PrestonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-13· cited 536×
- Commonwealth v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-29· cited 181×
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-01· cited 77×
- Commonwealth v. RawlesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-01· cited 74×
- Commonwealth v. RansomeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-06· cited 73×
- Commonwealth v. CopelandSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-12-21· cited 68×
- Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-17· cited 58×
- Commonwealth v. MelsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-09· cited 51×
- Calene v. StateWyoming Supreme Court· 1993-02-05· cited 45×
- Commonwealth v. LaSaneSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-06-14· cited 36×
- Commonwealth v. WitherspoonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 30×
- Commonwealth v. NorrisSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-01· cited 26×
- Commonwealth v. CadenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-03-09· cited 24×
- Commonwealth v. JonesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-16· cited 24×
- Commonwealth v. LongSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-20· cited 23×
- Commonwealth v. BlairSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. BondSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-31· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. ValezquezSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-12-15· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. MeoliSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-15· cited 15×
Cites
33 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Barker v. WingoSupreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
- Klopfer v. North CarolinaSupreme Court· 1967-03-13· cited 1,817×
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. MaroneySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
- United States v. EwellSupreme Court· 1966-02-23· cited 1,196×
- Dickey v. FloridaSupreme Court· 1970-05-25· cited 824×
- Strunk v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1973-06-11· cited 675×
- Commonwealth v. DancerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 407×
- Commonwealth v. HamiltonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-22· cited 220×
- Commonwealth v. WareSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-11-20· cited 143×
- Commonwealth v. HillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 94×
- Commonwealth v. WidemanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 87×
- United States of America Ex Rel. Anthony Bruno v. Ross E. Herold, M.D., Director of Dannemora State Hospital, Dannemora, NewyorkSecond Circuit· 1969-02-14· cited 75×
- Commonwealth v. McGroganSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-30· cited 61×
- Commonwealth v. SullivanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-01-19· cited 59×
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Sprangle v. MaroneySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-01-04· cited 55×
- Commonwealth v. PearsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 46×
- Commonwealth v. SchmidtSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-01-19· cited 43×
- Commonwealth v. RoundtreeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 41×
- Commonwealth v. ZapataSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 41×
- Commonwealth v. TunnellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 36×
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