Commonwealth v. Bennett

How courts have described this case

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

• “[U]nless the PC[R]A court is certain of the total lack of merit of an issue raised in a PC[R]A petition, a hearing should be held on the issue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Com. v. McCready, P.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-05-17· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-10· cited 18×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Commonwealth v. Knighton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-30· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Crocker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-05· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Rhodes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-07· cited 31×