Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2/22/1990
Commonwealth v. Smith
Citations
- 570 A.2d 559
- 391 Pa. Super. 154
- 1990 Pa. Super. LEXIS 325
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- reiterating the “‘fundamental’” point that “‘an accused must suffer jeopardy before he can suffer double jeopardy’”
- district attorney’s decision not to prosecute case after trial court granted suppression of evidence based on exclusionary rule was not an acquittal
- district attorney's decision not to prosecute case after trial court granted suppression of evidence based on exclusionary rule was not an acquittal
- it is “ ‘fundamental’ ” that “ ‘an accused must suffer jeopardy before he can suffer double jeopardy,’ ” and “ ‘[wjithout risk of a determination of guilt, jeopardy does not attach, and neither an appeal nor further prosecution constitutes double jeopardy.’ ”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Wieand, Beck, Montgomery
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5 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. MicklosSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-28· cited 38×
- Commonwealth v. PerilloSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-02· cited 19×
- Commonwealth v. BellezzaSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-02-18· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. SchmotzerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-08-22· cited 16×
- Commonwealth v. HunterSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-04· cited 7×
Cites
23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
- Green v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1957-12-16· cited 3,075×
- United States v. JornSupreme Court· 1971-01-25· cited 2,215×
- Serfass v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1975-03-03· cited 1,194×
- Commonwealth v. CampanaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-04· cited 340×
- Commonwealth v. CampanaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 306×
- Commonwealth v. HudeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-11· cited 170×
- Commonwealth v. HetheringtonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 110×
- Commonwealth v. TerrySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-02-17· cited 103×
- Pennsylvania v. CampanaSupreme Court· 1973-10-09· cited 76×
- Commonwealth v. CartagenaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 64×
- Liciaga v. Court of Common PleasSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-10-19· cited 59×
- Commonwealth v. SmithSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-02-27· cited 40×
- Commonwealth v. DavisSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-19· cited 19×
- Commonwealth v. GuimentoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-29· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. PacellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-13· cited 16×
- Commonwealth v. FlandersSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 11×
- Commonwealth v. DozierSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-08-17· cited 10×
- Commonwealth v. RamirezSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-29· cited 9×
- Greco v. Pa. Bd. of Prob. & ParoleCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-22· cited 7×
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