Commonwealth v. Ferguson

How courts have described this case

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

• “[E]ven where a PCRA petition 4 This requirement is irrespective of whether or not Appellant requests counsel to be appointed. See Commonwealth v. Auchmuty, 799 A.2d 823, 826 (Pa. Super. 2002
• “Simply stated, when Appellant explicitly requested the appointment of counsel in his pro se petition, the PCRA court erred in not determining his possible indigence and in not appointing counsel if it determined that Appellant was indigent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Perez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-21· cited 122×
• 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. Evans
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-01-06· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Auchmuty
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-16· cited 29×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Alcorn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-17· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Finley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-24· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Kaufmann
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-06-07· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-09-25· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Luckett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-09-23· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Van Allen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-09· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Perry
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-07-20· cited 12×