Commonwealth v. Sanabria

How courts have described this case

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

• the Court was evenly divided on whether a co-defendant's invocation of the Fifth Amendment renders his subsequent testimony unavailable for purposes of section 3(c)(13) of the former Post Conviction Hearing Act
• 3-3 split on whether a co-defendant’s invocation of the fifth amendment makes his testimony unavailable for purposes of section 3(c)(13) of the Post Conviction Hearing Act, 19 P.S. § 1180-3(c)(13) (Supp.1980-81)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Frey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-11-18· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-06-19· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Ryder
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-21· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Benson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-22· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-20· cited 4×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Rodgers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-28· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Colon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 70×
• Lepley v. Lycoming County Court of Common Pleas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Sanabria
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Cooney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Conley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-02-27· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Conley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-22· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Mervin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-02-23· cited 5×