Commonwealth v. Walczak

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that appellant’s initial appeal was quashed because appeal was from adjudication of guilt and judgment of sentence had not been imposed
• stating that “a fact-finder’s verdict of not guilty is accorded absolute finality. It is completely insulated from appellate review.” (citation and brackets omitted)
• stating that “a fact-finder’s verdict of not guilty is accorded absolute finality. It is completely insulated from appellate review.”
• stating that “a fact-finder’s verdict of not guilty is accorded absolute finality. It is completely insulated from appellate review.”
• stating that, in a criminal proceeding before a MDJ, “jeopardy attaches ... when the court begins to hear evidence. Thus, where a defendant has been found not guilty at trial, he may not be retried on the same offense.”
• stating that, in a criminal proceeding before a MDJ, “jeopardy attaches ... when the court begins to hear evidence. Thus, where a defendant has been found not guilty at trial, he may not be retried on the same offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Feathers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-31· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Wint
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-13· cited 38×
• Geiger v. Rouse
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-07-08· cited 25×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Ball III, J.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-09-28· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Hall
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-02· cited 12×
• Municipality of Anchorage v. Baxley
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1997-11-19· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-12-12· cited 5×
• Taylorsville City v. Adkins
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2006-09-14· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Ball
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-07-24· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Roche
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-23· cited 1×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Sanabria v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 1,038×
• Fong Foo v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1962-03-19· cited 557×
• Commonwealth v. Klobuchir
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-06· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Ray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 66×
• Murphy v. Murphy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-03· cited 56×
• Borough of West Chester v. Lal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-03-13· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Arelt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-17· cited 24×
• MARINO BY MARINO v. Marino
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-13· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Maurizio
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-17· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Tillman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-01· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Lyons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-03· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Springbrook Transport, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-16· cited 11×
• In re Appeal of Affected & Aggrieved Residents from the Adverse Action of the Supervisors
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-02-03· cited 5×