Commonwealth v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• defining manifest necessity as \a sudden and overwhelming emergency beyond control of court and unforeseeable\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Leister
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-05-21· cited 20×
• State v. Jackson
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2007-12-21· cited 15×
• Bailey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-12-01· cited 8×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Jorn
  Supreme Court· 1971-01-25· cited 2,215×
• Downum v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-04-22· cited 985×
• Commonwealth v. Bartolomucci
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-01-07· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Ferguson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Culpepper
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-16· cited 35×