Commonwealth v. Baldwin

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[n]either the court system nor the correctional system is obliged to educate or update prisoners concerning changes in case law.”
• explaining that a petitioner’s lack of prior knowledge of a newly decided case does not excuse a failure to file a timely PCRA petition
• reiterating that PCRA petition claiming exception to timeliness requirement based upon constitutional right newly recognized by United States Supreme Court or Pennsylvania Supreme Court must be presented within sixty days of newly published decision
• stating sixty-day period begins to run upon date of judicial decision
• “Neither the court system nor the correctional system is obliged to educate or update prisoners concerning changes in case law.”
• “Neither the court system nor the correctional system is obliged to educate or update prisoners concerning changes in case law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Boyd
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-02· cited 573×
• Commonwealth v. Brandon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-08-14· cited 398×
• Commonwealth v. Burton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-25· cited 181×
• Commonwealth v. Leggett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-28· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-01-14· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Robertson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-05-03· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Eichele
  Carbon County Court of Common Pleas· 2004-06-15· cited 1×
• Com. v. Burton, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-25

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-05-19· cited 369×
• Blackwell v. Com. State Ethics Com'n
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-28· cited 166×
• Commonwealth v. Alcorn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-17· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-21· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Besch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-17· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Gillespie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-28· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Cross
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-02-25· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Fenati
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-22· cited 35×