Commonwealth v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• holding defendant did not waive right to counsel where he was unable to afford attorney and court did not conduct “penetrating and comprehensive examination” of all circumstances pertaining to any waiver of right to counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Payson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-08· cited 57×
• Dauphin County Public Defender's Office v. Court of Common Pleas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-05-27· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Carothers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-22· cited 8×
• Com. v. Carlson, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-12-21· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Dunkel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-16· cited 1×
• Sawyer, S. v. Anusionwu, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-04-23

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• Von Moltke v. Gillies
  Supreme Court· 1948-01-19· cited 1,645×
• United States v. Kahan
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-25· cited 126×
• Commonwealth ex rel. McCray v. Rundle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-07-01· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Wentz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-01-09· cited 33×