Commonwealth v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• critical stage characterized by “opportunity for the exercise of judicial discretion or when certain legal rights may be lost if not exercised at that stage”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. D'Amato
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-02· cited 351×
• Commonwealth v. Freeland
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-11· cited 212×
• Commonwealth v. Padilla
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-31· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Hood
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-03-14· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Phillips
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-05· cited 69×
• United States v. Alexander Michael Roy
  Eleventh Circuit· 2017-04-26· cited 66×
• Flanagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-11-30· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-03-21· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Strong
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-25· cited 28×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-11-02· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-01-21· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-10-29· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Stetler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-03· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Feliciano
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-26· cited 10×
• Demarcus Donnell Parker v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2023-03-16· cited 8×
• Chadwick Staggs v. State of Arkansas
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2021-05-26· cited 5×
• Jarell Davis Terry v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2019-11-21· cited 3×
• Watts v. Mahally
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2017-03-27· cited 1×
• Com. v. Evans, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-05-12· cited 1×
• Ronald Allen Austin v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2025-07-22

Cites

30 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Brecht v. Abrahamson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 7,022×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• Bell v. Cone
  Supreme Court· 2002-05-28· cited 4,309×
• Mempa v. Rhay
  Supreme Court· 1967-11-13· cited 1,589×
• Hamilton v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1961-11-13· cited 1,308×
• Geders v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-30· cited 1,182×
• White v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-04-29· cited 1,066×
• Rushen v. Spain
  Supreme Court· 1983-12-12· cited 1,013×
• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• Rogers v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-17· cited 585×
• Shields v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1927-04-11· cited 228×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-09-17· cited 223×
• Commonwealth v. Holzer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-27· cited 195×
• Ellis v. United States
  First Circuit· 2002-12-23· cited 186×
• Charles M. Siverson v. Michael O'Leary and Neil F. Hartigan
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-06-10· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Arroyo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-21· cited 99×
• Curtis v. Duval & Harshbarger
  First Circuit· 1997-08-13· cited 86×