Commonwealth v. Powell

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that an “indigent petitioner’s right to counsel must be honored regardless of the merits of his underlying claims, even where those claims were previously addressed on direct appeal, so long as the petition in question is his first” (citation omitted)
• establishing test for knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of counsel in post-conviction and appellate proceedings
• once counsel is appointed, he or she must take affirmative steps to discharge his or her duties
• “When appointed, counsel's duty is to either (1) amend the petitioner's pro se petition and present the petitioner's claims in acceptable legal terms, or (2

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Henkel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-04-11· cited 554×
• 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. Willis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-09-23· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Cherry
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-02-06· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Kelsey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-03-22· cited 55×
• 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×
• Commonwealth v. Lasko
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-10· cited 4×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Finley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-31· cited 4,104×
• Commonwealth v. Grazier
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-06-15· cited 1,461×
• Commonwealth v. Hampton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-09-15· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Priovolos
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-27· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Meehan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-07-15· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Brady
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-15· cited 15×