Commonwealth v. Heilman

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that insufficient evidence appeared in the record of the hearing providing a basis for a finding that the appellant willfully disregarded the terms of his probation
• determining that the evidence was insufficient to establish probation violation because the Commonwealth presented no witnesses and relied upon the defendant’s testimony and unsworn comments of the prosecutor and probation officer
• finding argument raised in support of claim in appellant’s brief that differed from the issue raised in his 1925(b) statement to be waived
• “[A] tacit or implied waiver of a constitutional right is simply insufficient. . . . Moreover, there can be no legitimate argument made that the [hearing in question] satisfied the requirements of Gagnon II.”
• “[A] tacit or implied waiver of a constitutional right is simply insufficient.”
• “[A] tacit or implied waiver of a constitutional right is simply insufficient.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Cartrette
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-24· cited 1,101×
• Commonwealth v. Infante
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-06· cited 262×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-10· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Allshouse
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-03-19· cited 81×
• Com. v. Lee, N.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-07-27· cited 6×
• Com. v. Campbell, H.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-27
• Com. v. Potoczny, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-04-23

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Blakely v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 13,994×
• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• Gagnon v. Scarpelli
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 5,755×
• Commonwealth v. Lord
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-28· cited 1,456×
• Commonwealth v. Cappellini
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-03-10· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Sims
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-03-05· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Houtz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-07-28· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-02-08· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Del Conte
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-16· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Ballard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-01-06· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Hottinger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-08· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Swartz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-12· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-06-10· cited 8×