Commonwealth v. Sanford

How courts have described this case

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

• reasoning defendant’s “voluntary act of seeking and receiving a new trial constitutes a waiver of any double jeopardy claim”
• applying Section 1908 of the Statutory Construction Act to prompt trial calculation
• Saturday and Sunday excluded from speedy-trial calculation under Rules of Criminal Procedure where the deadline fell on a weekend
• 1 Pa.C.S. § 1908 applicable to Rule 1100 calculations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Einhorn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-14· cited 136×
• Commonwealth v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-24· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Shirey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-07· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Colon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-29· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. McCarthy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-02-06· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Constant
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-05· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-10-12· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-31· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Carey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-15· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Lennon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-20· cited 5×
• Ford v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-06-25· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Talarigo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-18· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. DeMarco
  Mercer County Court of Common Pleas· 1984-07-20