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.

• holding that the first two prongs of the Pierce test \are clearly met where counsel fails to follow procedural rules to ensure requested appellate review of a criminal defendant's claims.\
• noting that a defendant “who is deprived entirely of his right of direct appeal . . . is per se without effective assistance of counsel, and is entitled to reinstatement of his direct appeal rights.”
• “[A] brief containing such defective argument that appellate review is precluded has the same result as filing no brief at all.”
• “[C]ounsel’s failure to include a Pa.R.A.P. 2119(f) statement in the brief compromised appellant’s direct appeal rights.”
• “[A] brief containing such defective argument that appellate review is precluded has the same result as filing no brief at all.”
• “[A] brief containing such defective argument that appellate review is precluded has the same result as filing no brief at all.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Paul
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-15· cited 357×
• Commonwealth v. Reed
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-06-16· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. Grosella
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-10· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Mikell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-03-17· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Pulanco
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-23· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-04-16
• Commonwealth v. Stockbauer
  Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-07-23
• In re the Disbarment of Taylor
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-01-02

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-10· cited 739×
• Commonwealth v. Lantzy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-07· cited 472×
• Commonwealth v. Halley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-03-29· cited 346×
• Commonwealth v. Liebel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-06-09· cited 147×
• Commonwealth v. Franklin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-04-29· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Hernandez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-05-22· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Chilcote
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-20· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Russell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-29· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Hernandez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-03-07· cited 23×