444 Pa. Super. 321 - Commonwealth v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2014
16 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 Karis v. Karis · Krupinski v. Vocational Technical School Eastern Northampton County · 368 Pa. Super. 372 - Commonwealth v. Petras · 250 Pa. Super. 66 - Commonwealth v. Kovacs · 242 Pa. Super. 218 - Commonwealth v. McCafferty
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due diligence is a “fluid concept” which must be determined on a “case by case” basis. Commonwealth v. Lloyd, 370 Pa.Super. 65 , 535 A.2d 1152, 1160 (Pa. 1988). But it is well settled that a “defendant incarcerated in another jurisdiction will be deemed ‘unavailable’ for the period of time during which his presence, despite the Commonwealth’s duly diligent efforts, cannot otherwise be ob tained.” Id. (citing Commonwealth v. Maxwell, 355 Pa.Super. 575 , 513 A.2d 1382, 1385 (Pa.1986)). What is more, “in addition to any other circumstances precluding the availability of the defendant ... the defendant should be deemed unavailable for the period of time during which ... a responding jurisdiction delayed ... extradition.” Id. (citing Commonwealth v. DeMarco, 332 Pa.Super. 315 , 481 A.2d 632, 635 (Pa.1984)). When it has been determined that the Commonwealth adhered to procedures requested by the sending jurisdiction and has properly relied on that jurisdiction’s assertions, the Commonwealth will have exercised “due diligence.” Id. Furthermore, insofar as the Commonwealth believed it pursued the prisoner’s return to the fullest extent within its control, any “period of inactivity” is excluded from the running of the statute of limitations. Id. What is important is what the Commonwealth did do; not what it did not do. Id. at 1161.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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