Commonwealth v. Shaffer

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to uphold dismissal where the prosecutor knowingly scheduled a vacation during the trial term during which defendant’s case was scheduled to go to trial and no trial term was scheduled for the following month because the defendant was not prejudiced by the consequent delay
• \[D]iscretionary power can only exist within the framework of the law.... Discretion is abused ... where the law is not applied ....\ (citation omitted)
• addressing dismissal as a discovery sanction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Preston
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-13· cited 536×
• Commonwealth v. Boczkowski
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-23· cited 231×
• Commonwealth v. Burke
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-17· cited 204×
• Commonwealth v. Goldman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-07-12· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-08-06· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Barbour, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-07-18· cited 85×
• Com. v. Kehr, II, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-02-28· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Bowden
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-19· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-08-07· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Jordan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-09-22· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-03· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Hemingway
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-01-11· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-27· cited 27×
• Juban v. Schermer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-05-05· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Maldonodo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-09-12· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-11-03· cited 21×
• Com. v. Dinell, Z.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-01-31· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Interest of A.G.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-08-15· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Jefferson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-10· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Torres
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-10· cited 5×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Coker v. SM Flickinger Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-02· cited 222×
• Brocker v. Brocker
  Supreme Court· 1969-02-24· cited 151×
• Brocker v. Brocker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-15· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Genovese
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-04· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Waldman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 49×
• Traynor v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1969-02-24· cited 37×
• Barnes v. McKellar
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-08· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Carson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-06-27· cited 21×
• Konya v. District Attorney of Northampton County
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-29· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Steltz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-30· cited 14×