2002 Pa. Super. 225 - Commonwealth v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2022
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Hetherington · Liciaga v. Court of Common Pleas · Boyer v. Walker · 453 Pa. Super. 36 - Commonwealth v. Waller · Commonwealth v. Thorpe
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decision to reinstitute charges must be made by the attorney for the Commonwealth. Therefore, in cases in which no attorney for the Commonwealth was present at the ‘preliminary hearing, the police officer may not refile the complaint without the written authorization of the attorney for the Commonwealth. See Rule 507 (Approval of Police Complaints and Arrest Warrant Affidavits by Attorney for the Commonwealth — Local Option) for procedures for prior approval of complaints.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well settled that where the result is correct, an appellate court may affirm a lower court's decision on any ground without regard to the ground relied upon by the lower court itself.” Commonwealth v. Singletary, 803 A.2d 769, 772-73 (Pa.Super.2002) (citation omitted). . We recognize our Supreme Court’s recent decision in Commonwealth v. Grant, - Pa. -, 813 A.2d 726 (2002), announcing the general rule that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so long as the Commonwealth re-files the charges in good faith and not to harass the defendant, the Commonwealth need not present any new evidence that was not available at the time of the first preliminary hearing in order to refile the charges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.