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.

• explaining remedy for challenges to sufficiency of evidence is judgment of acquittal; remedy for challenges to weight of evidence is new trial
• noting defendant’s counsel stated he moved for judgment of acquittal, which is associated with a sufficiency challenge, not weight
• explaining the distinction between weight and sufficiency claims, and finding waiver of appellant’s weight claim for failure to preserve it pursuant to Rule 607(A)
• relying upon Martin in the context of a probation violation and noting that \ Martin is nonetheless presently instructive because it addresses equitable crediting of pre-trial incarceration when that incarceration is attributable to more than one set of offenses.\
• “[I]n a case where nonsuit was entered, the appeal properly lies from the judgment (Footnote Continued Next Page
• “[I]n a case where nonsuit was entered, the appeal properly lies from the judgment entered after denial of a motion to remove nonsuit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Snyder
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-03-03· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-02-26· cited 101×
• Com. v. Sexton, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-10-28· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-10-21· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Kennedy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-02-08· cited 45×
• Melhorn v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-30· cited 15×
• Johnson v. Murray
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-08· cited 4×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Widmer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-20· cited 1,854×
• Gaito v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-20· cited 417×
• Martin v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-30· cited 239×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-27· cited 195×
• Commonwealth v. Bennett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 51×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Bleecher v. Rundle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-03-24· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-02-22· cited 32×