Commonwealth v. Homoki

How courts have described this case

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

• “We will not attempt to resolve constitutional issues unless the specific issue is before us[,] and the resolution of the issue is absolutely necessary to the decision of the case.” (emphasis added; citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Weaver v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-01-30· cited 134×
• Commonwealth v. Cappellini
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-03-10· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Castro
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-06· cited 25×
• Lee v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-10-25· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Hermanson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-02· cited 20×
• Com. v. Choice, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-09-18

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Morrissey v. Brewer
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 10,835×
• Gagnon v. Scarpelli
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 5,755×
• Commonwealth v. Kates
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-08· cited 232×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-29· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Crosby
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-03· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-29· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Todd
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-20· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-12-06· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Homoki
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-04-07· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Donato
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-05-09· cited 4×