Commonwealth v. Finley

How courts have described this case

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

• \[C]ompliance was unnecessary\ if counsel conducted an exhaustive examination of the record and the lower court concludes that the petitioner's claims are completely frivolous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-27· cited 4,184×
• Commonwealth v. Finley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-31· cited 4,104×
• Pennsylvania v. Finley
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-18· cited 3,807×
• Commonwealth v. Albrecht
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-23· cited 654×
• Hughes v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-06-09· cited 217×
• Commonwealth v. Perry
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-09-15· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Maple
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-08· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. McGeth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-08· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-08-07· cited 12×
• People v. White
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2020-10-16· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Keeney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-05· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Rauser
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-20· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Coley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-11· cited 5×
• Com. v. Bachmann, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-11-08
• D. Anderson, II v. PBPP
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-08-12
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-02
• Commonwealth v. Sheppard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-04-04
• J. Page v. Hon. T.P. Rogers
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-08-27

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Anders v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-08· cited 87,848×
• Commonwealth v. McClendon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-24· cited 771×
• O'Bryan v. Chandler
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 455×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-15· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. Greer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Fiero
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-07-07· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Lohr
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-06· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Finley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-24· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Worthy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-18· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Lowenberg
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-09· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Finley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 9×