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.

• stating that merely asserting that counsel had no reasonable basis for inaction is -7- J-S16041-20 insufficient to warrant any type of PCRA relief and an appellant must show the appellate court some evidentiary proffer
• “The relaxed waiver rule ... is not available upon PCRA appeal.”
• stating claims of ineffective assistance of counsel are not self-proving

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Ali
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-12-29· cited 675×
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 593×
• Commonwealth v. Roney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-30· cited 496×
• Commonwealth v. Bomar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 478×
• Commonwealth v. Chmiel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-29· cited 431×
• Commonwealth v. Sneed
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-06-04· cited 398×
• Commonwealth v. D'Amato
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-02· cited 351×
• Commonwealth v. Tedford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-19· cited 325×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-09-28· cited 310×
• Commonwealth v. Rainey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 308×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-10-17· cited 303×
• Commonwealth v. Steele
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-12-18· cited 284×
• Commonwealth v. Carson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-27· cited 237×
• Commonwealth v. Hughes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-21· cited 218×
• Commonwealth v. Baumhammers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-20· cited 216×
• Commonwealth v. Rios
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-18· cited 173×
• Commonwealth v. Sneed
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-06-19· cited 144×
• Commonwealth v. Lauro
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-02-27· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-24· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-22· cited 112×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Kyles v. Whitley
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-19· cited 6,003×
• Bell v. Cone
  Supreme Court· 2002-05-28· cited 4,309×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Simmons v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-17· cited 1,326×
• Tyrone Werts v. Donald T. Vaughn the District Attorney of the County of Philadelphia the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 2000-09-15· cited 735×
• Commonwealth v. Albrecht
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-23· cited 654×
• United States v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 647×
• Commonwealth v. Lark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-02-23· cited 546×
• Commonwealth v. Travaglia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-23· cited 541×
• O'Dell v. Netherland
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-19· cited 521×
• Commonwealth v. Kimball
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-22· cited 512×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-04· cited 461×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-21· cited 416×
• Commonwealth v. Basemore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-20· cited 404×
• Commonwealth v. Pettus
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-05· cited 291×
• Commonwealth v. Yarris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-05-21· cited 284×
• Commonwealth v. Ahlborn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-19· cited 277×
• Commonwealth v. Bracey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-31· cited 246×