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.

• allowing for the possibility of post-conviction relief \if it can be concluded that an alternative not chosen offered a potential for success substantially greater than the course actually pursued\ (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-04· cited 461×
• Commonwealth v. Hutchinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-22· cited 298×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-09-17· cited 223×
• Commonwealth v. Rios
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-18· cited 173×
• Commonwealth v. Comer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-08-07· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Rivers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-20· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Hood
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-03-14· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-20· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Abdul-Salaam
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-31· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. May
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-05-25· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Lester
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-22· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-02· cited 43×
• Harsh v. Petroll
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-10· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Wesley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-10-14· cited 20×
• Wood v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2004-01-06· cited 17×
• Swift v. Department of Transportation
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-07· cited 16×
• Pickett v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-04-03· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Montgomery
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-15· cited 7×
• Swift v. DEPT. OF TRANSP. OF COM.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-07· cited 7×
• United States v. Standler
  Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces· 1997-09-29· cited 4×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 709×
• Pioneer Finishing Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board
  Supreme Court· 1983-08-23· cited 229×
• Commonwealth v. Pursell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-26· cited 203×
• Commonwealth v. Howard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-08· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-05· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Zook
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-17· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Beasley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-28· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-24· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Beasley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-18· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. DeHart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-11-22· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Syre
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-03· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Holland
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Bonacurso
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-01-28· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-29· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Pirela
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-03-21· cited 36×
• Rogers v. Oregon
  Supreme Court· 1993-03-08· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-12-22· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Rush
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-07-10· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Mervin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-09-23· cited 19×