Commonwealth v. Pagan

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 petitioner may not seek relief by way of a writ of coram nobis “merely because the PCRA refuses to remedy a petitioner’s grievance”
• explaining that other remedies do “not become available merely because the PCRA [court] refuses to remedy a petitioner’s grievance; rather, we look at the claims a petitioner is raising”
• stating that “[u]nder the plain words of the [PCRA], if the underlying substantive claim is one that could potentially be remedied under the PCRA, that claim is exclusive to the PCRA.” (emphasis in original)
• explaining “if the underlying substantive claim is one that could potentially be remedied under the PCRA, that claim is exclusive to the PCRA.”
• explaining “if the underlying substantive claim is one that could potentially be remedied under the PCRA, that claim is exclusive to the PCRA.”
• explaining “if the underlying substantive claim is one that could potentially be remedied under the PCRA, that claim is exclusive to the PCRA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth, Aplt v. Descares
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-03-29· cited 173×
• Com. v. Shaw, P.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-08-16· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Plunkett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-12-02· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Descardes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-23· cited 33×
• Com. v. Bates, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-03-29· cited 7×
• Com. v. Descardes, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-23
• Com. v. Stultz, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-28
• Com. v. Mucci, F.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-11-13

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ahlborn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-19· cited 277×
• Commonwealth v. Santiago
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-17· cited 226×
• Commonwealth v. Chester
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-24· cited 171×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-06-22· cited 160×
• Commonwealth v. Eller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-09-25· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-06-19· cited 10×