Commonwealth v. Evans

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that motion for reconsideration or modification of sentence should be treated as PCRA petition
• holding that under certain circumstances, an untimely post-sentence motion may be considered a PCRA petition
• concluding that motion for reconsideration constituted first PCRA petition filed after this Court affirmed the judgment of sentence
• concluding that a Motion for Reconsideration or Modification of Sentence should be treated as PCRA Petition
• stating that a motion for reconsideration or modification of sentence was required to be examined under the PCRA
• declaring that there is “a long line of Pennsylvania precedent requiring unequivocally that prisoners seeking post-conviction relief by whatever name be afforded the assistance of counsel”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-19· cited 800×
• Commonwealth v. Fowler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-23· cited 444×
• Commonwealth v. Stossel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-12· cited 184×
• Commonwealth v. Price
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-27· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Willis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-09-23· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-04· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-01-30· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Calhoun
  Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-11-30

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Blakely v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 13,994×
• Commonwealth v. Albrecht
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-23· cited 654×
• Commonwealth v. Guthrie
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-16· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Kutnyak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-08-13· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-03-06· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Hockenberry
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-01-31· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Quail
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-24· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Ferguson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-03· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-13· cited 11×