Commonwealth v. Houck

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “it is the defendant’s burden, and not the Commonwealth’s, to establish that a jury waiver is invalid.”
• stating that “it is the defendant’s burden, and not the Commonwealth’s, to establish that a jury waiver is invalid” (citations omitted)
• stating, “the voluntariness of a jury waiver can be undermined where the defendant is informed of a range of potential sentences at a jury waiver colloquy that is less than the sentence eventually imposed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-08· cited 887×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-07-19· cited 309×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 162×
• People v. Sivongxxay
  California Supreme Court· 2017-06-19· cited 153×
• Commonwealth v. Dowling
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-19· cited 27×
• Chilutti, S. v. Uber Technologies, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-07-19· cited 3×
• Chilutti, S. v. Uber Technologies, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-10-12· cited 1×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 193×
• Commonwealth v. Mallory
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-02-19· cited 174×
• Commonwealth v. Boyd
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 128×
• Commonwealth v. O'Donnell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-10-28· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Cousin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-28· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Carey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-06-24· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Hooks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-11-18· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Golinsky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-21· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Byng
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-21· cited 5×