Commonwealth v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “once a defendant has entered a plea of nolo contendere, it is presumed that he was aware of what he was doing, and the burden of proving involuntariness is upon him.”
• “Instantly, the appellant’s sentence falls within the statutory limits. Because the claims asserted by appellant do not raise a substantial question, further review of the discretionary aspects of sentencing is not warranted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Mouzon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-19· cited 702×
• Commonwealth v. Goggins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-09· cited 383×
• Commonwealth v. Paul
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-15· cited 357×
• State v. Lively
  Washington Supreme Court· 1996-08-29· cited 166×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-10-19· cited 160×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-03-02· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Gunter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-05-22· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-02-16· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Boyle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-09· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Barzyk
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-04· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Peifer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-09· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Petzold
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-10-16· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Postell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-07· cited 17×
• Monaci v. State Horse Racing Commission
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-08-31· cited 15×
• R.F. v. Department of Public Welfare
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-06-25· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Bowersox
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-02-18· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Laszczynski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-07-31· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Kraft
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-09-14· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Oliver
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-05-07· cited 7×
• R.F. v. Department of Public Welfare
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-02· cited 3×

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• United States v. Russell
  Supreme Court· 1973-04-24· cited 2,012×
• Hampton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1976-04-27· cited 910×
• Commonwealth v. Devers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-27· cited 872×
• Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-10· cited 739×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-27· cited 319×
• United States of America, in No. 81-1020 v. Jannotti, Harry P. United States of America, in No. 81-1021 v. Schwartz, George X
  Third Circuit· 1982-02-11· cited 317×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-08-21· cited 213×
• United States v. Roy Moreno Ramirez, United States of America v. Robert H. Reynolds
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-07-12· cited 174×
• United States v. Gerald Connell
  First Circuit· 1992-02-26· cited 167×
• United States v. Gambino, Rosario, Erasmo Gambino, Antonio Gambino, and Anthony Spatola
  Third Circuit· 1986-04-23· cited 134×
• Commonwealth v. Fluharty
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-21· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. Urrutia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-27· cited 121×
• United States v. Harold Haimowitz, Dan Scarborough, George L. Onett
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-03-05· cited 102×
• United States v. Michael J. Swiatek
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-05-13· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Chumley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-11-18· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-19· cited 95×
• United States of America, Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Michael Floyd Barth, Appellee/cross-Appellant
  Eighth Circuit· 1993-05-25· cited 94×
• United States v. Donald J. Quinn
  Eighth Circuit· 1976-11-03· cited 93×
• Doyle v. Suffolk County
  Supreme Court· 1986-10-06· cited 93×