Commonwealth v. Meehan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that notwithstanding an appellant’s experience with the appellate system, quashal of an untimely -5- J.S27024/16 appeal is inappropriate where the lower court has not informed the appellant of his appellate rights
• excusing untimeliness of an appeal from the denial of a PCRA petition, where the court failed to advise the petitioner of his right to appeal pursuant to Rule 908(E)
• stating “we cannot say with certainty that the PCRA court's failure to follow the directives of Rule [907] had no effect on appellant's ability to perfect his appeal since he was incarcerated”
• stating “we cannot say with certainty that the PCRA court’s failure to follow the directives of Rule [907] had no effect on appellant’s ability to perfect his appeal since he was incarcerated”
• excusing the untimely filing of a notice of appeal, stating that “we cannot say with certainty that the PCRA court’s failure to follow the directives of Rule [908] had no effect on appellant’s ability to perfect his appeal….”
• appeal periods cannot be enlarged except.in the case of fraud or breakdown of the process of a court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Grazier
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-06-15· cited 1,461×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-07-19· cited 309×
• Commonwealth v. Stossel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-12· cited 184×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-04-09· cited 181×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-07-21· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Rogers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-01· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Powell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-04· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Clyburn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-02-27· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Isaac
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-02-26· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-13· cited 11×
• Com. v. Williams, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-03-25· cited 7×
• United States Ex Rel. Patosky v. Kozakiewicz
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 1997-03-24
• Jones v. Frank
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1998-11-24

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-27· cited 319×
• Commonwealth v. Basemore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-11-16· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Monica
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-07· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Ingram
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-05-22· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Blystone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-19· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Bastone
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-18· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Neal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-08-23· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Doleno
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-10· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-16· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-04-19· cited 10×