Commonwealth v. Wallace

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a trial court ruling of not guilty due to the failure of the complainant to appear amounted to a dismissal
• finding that jeopardy did not attach because the trial court did not receive any evidence
• finding that the trial court erred in finding the appellee not guilty when a key prosecution witness, a police officer, was unavailable to appear at a trial de novo

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-03-03· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-07-23· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Bowles
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-03-27

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Tibbs v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-07· cited 3,796×
• Green v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-12-16· cited 3,075×
• United States v. Scott
  Supreme Court· 1978-10-02· cited 1,668×
• United States v. Dinitz
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-08· cited 1,492×
• Sanabria v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 1,038×
• Price v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-15· cited 784×
• Justices of Boston Municipal Court v. Lydon
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-18· cited 588×
• Fong Foo v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1962-03-19· cited 557×
• Commonwealth v. Ray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 66×
• Borough of West Chester v. Lal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-03-13· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-02-27· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Zoller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-29· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. McDonough
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-03-02· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Jung
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-24· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Maurizio
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-17· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-10· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Tillman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-01· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Dincel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-13· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Walczak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-14· cited 13×