Commonwealth v. Washington

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing a contempt conviction where the defendant received no notice of the court order
• judge was informed that attorney was at trial in different county and could not be present
• no willful misconduct in failure to appear where judge knew that attorney had conflicting court engagement and record did not show that attorney received notice of expected appearance
• no willful misconduct in failure to appear where judge knew that attorney had conflicting court engagement and record did not show that attorney received notice of expected appearance
• “At best, the evidence in this case establishes only noncompliance with certain court orders. That alone is insufficient to prove contempt.”
• no proof that appellant received notification of expected appearances except for one

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Garrison
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-05-05· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Marcone
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-01· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Ferrara
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-21· cited 18×
• Weingrad v. Lippy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-21· cited 16×
• Matter of Ring
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-01-30· cited 12×
• Medve v. Walakovits
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-01· cited 11×
• Smith v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-01· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Giordano
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 8×
• McCusker v. McCusker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-09-16· cited 6×
• In the Interest of Guralnick
  Bucks County Court of Common Pleas· 1990-02-06
• Commonwealth v. Stevenson, V., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-09-29

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bloom v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 1,167×
• United States of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, and v. The Greyhound Corporation and Greyhound Lines, Inc., And
  Seventh Circuit· 1974-12-24· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Webster
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 102×
• Sklaroff v. Skeadas
  Supreme Court· 1956-06-11· cited 72×
• In Re Darwin Charles Brown
  D.C. Circuit· 1971-11-02· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 23×
• Dorsey K. Offutt v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1956-06-11· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Haefner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 18×
• Offutt v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1956-06-11· cited 6×
• United States v. Allen-Bradley Co.
  Supreme Court· 1956-06-11· cited 5×