Commonwealth v. Allen

How courts have described this case

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

• claims alleging ineffectiveness in the entry of a guilty plea relief will be forthcoming only if the ineffectiveness caused the defendant to enter an involuntary or unknowing plea
• malice present where defendant hit guardrail before accident but kept driving for two miles -7- J-E03004-23 with victim impaled on defendant’s car and continued for five more miles after body rolled off
• right to effective counsel applicable to nolo contendere pleas as well
• right to effective counsel applicable to nolo contendere pleas

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Wah
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-03-01· cited 382×
• Commonwealth v. Fowler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-02-15· cited 220×
• Commonwealth v. Michaud
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-07-11· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Packer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-08-22· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. McHale
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-08· cited 37×
• Com. v. Peters, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-08-07