Commonwealth v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a pro se prisoner’s document is deemed filed on the date he delivers it to prison authorities for mailing
• concluding that pro se prisoners’ appeals must be deemed filed as of the date they deliver them to prison authorities for mailing
• holding that appeal by pro se prisoner is deemed filed on date prisoner places it in prison mailbox
• holding that a pro se prisoner’s document is deemed filed on the date he or she delivers it to prison authorities for mailing
• holding that under the prisoner mailbox rule, a document is deemed filed the day the document is provided to prison officials for mailing
• holding that pro se prisoners’ appeals deemed filed as of the date they deliver them to prison authorities for mailing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Callahan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-23· cited 293×
• Commonwealth v. Chambers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-12-23· cited 255×
• Commonwealth v. Friend
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-30· cited 238×
• Charles Brown v. Robert Shannon the District Attorney of the County of Philadelphia the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 2003-03-17· cited 173×
• Paul Satterfield v. Philip L. Johnson the District Attorney of the County of Philadelphia the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 2006-01-17· cited 139×
• Silverbrand v. County of Los Angeles
  California Supreme Court· 2009-04-23· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Feliciano
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-07-01· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Perez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-21· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Jerman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-31· cited 107×
• Kittrell v. Watson
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-04-02· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. DiClaudio
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-05-21· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Little
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-09-08· cited 93×
• Thomas v. Elash
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-25· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Cooper
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-08· cited 84×
• Douglas v. Horn
  Third Circuit· 2004-02-09· cited 62×
• Taylor v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-02-17· cited 54×
• M.G. v. L.D., Appeal of: C.B.D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-02-08· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Woods
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-12· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-03-20· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Bradley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-30· cited 42×