Commonwealth v. Shaffer

How courts have described this case

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

• holding on direct appeal that defendant was not entitled to withdrawal of guilty plea for trial court's failure to explain the elements of the crimes to which the guilty pleas were entered
• Concurring Opinion by Roberts, J., with O’Brien, C.J., and Nix, J., joining
• Concurring Opinion by Roberts, J.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Muhammad
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-03-01· cited 296×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-05-25· cited 279×
• Commonwealth v. Jordan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-04-11· cited 241×
• Commonwealth v. Morrison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-17· cited 228×
• Commonwealth v. Flanagan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-07-23· cited 212×
• Commonwealth v. Yager
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-11-07· cited 175×
• Commonwealth v. Carpenter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-26· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Fluharty
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-21· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. Persinger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-10· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Anthony
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-24· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. McClendon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-04-08· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Myers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-05-26· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Gunter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-05-22· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Mobley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-31· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. O'Donnell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-10-28· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Byrne
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-23· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Pardo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-12-13· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-23· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-02-08· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Schultz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-07-13· cited 50×

Cites

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

• Boykin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 12,640×
• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• Brady v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 7,191×
• Henderson v. Morgan
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 1,382×
• Smith v. O'GRADY
  Supreme Court· 1941-02-17· cited 586×
• People v. Frierson
  California Supreme Court· 1979-08-31· cited 398×
• People v. Jackson
  California Supreme Court· 1980-10-23· cited 396×
• People v. Orin
  California Supreme Court· 1975-04-04· cited 285×
• Commonwealth v. Ingram
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 283×
• Commonwealth v. Forbes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-01-19· cited 246×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. West v. Rundle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-01-03· cited 225×
• People v. Chadd
  California Supreme Court· 1981-01-19· cited 214×
• Commonwealth v. Starr
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 171×
• Commonwealth v. Alvarado
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-04-22· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Dilbeck
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Sampson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-29· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Minor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-01-19· cited 59×
• Crawford v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-08· cited 57×