Commonwealth v. Hampton

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that appointment of counsel is necessary despite the apparent untimeliness of petition
• holding that appointment of counsel is necessary despite the apparent untimeliness of petition
• holding that counsel is to be appointed in a PCRA case to adequately and fully develop legal issues by filing an amended petition precisely because a pro se petitioner is not learned in the law
• finding proceedings effectively -6- J-S53011-15 uncounseled and in violation of the representation requirement “when appointed counsel fails to amend an inarticulately drafted pro se [PCRA] petition, or fails otherwise to participate meaningfully[.]”
• “counsel’s inaction deprived the petitioner the opportunity of legally trained counsel to advance his position in acceptable legal terms”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Henkel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-04-11· cited 554×
• Commonwealth v. Karanicolas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-12· cited 257×
• Commonwealth v. Friend
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-30· cited 238×
• Commonwealth v. Perez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-21· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Kutnyak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-08-13· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Kubis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-09-19· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-09· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Quail
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-24· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Powell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-04· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Glover
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-04· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Priovolos
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-27· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. McLaurin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-25· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-04· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-14· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Malone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-04-30· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-26· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Plummer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-08· cited 1×
• Com. v. PRIVOLOS
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-27
• Commonwealth v. Small, E., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-10-01

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Finley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-31· cited 4,104×
• Commonwealth v. Fiero
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-07-07· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Alexander
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-08· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Sangricco
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-30· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Lindsey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-12-30· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Carrier
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 20×
• 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. Ollie
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-09-24· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Barton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-25· cited 15×
• 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. Hines
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-22· cited 7×