Commonwealth v. Simmons

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial judge should have recused himself after hearing withdrawn guilty plea
• holding trial court erred by denying a recusal request where accused withdrew guilty plea prior to bench trial since the trial judge could not be impartial after defendant divulged prejudicial information

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Postie
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-02-17· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Irwin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-30· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Kellum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-06· cited 17×
• Brent v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-05-15· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Debose
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-08-26· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Tainan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-25· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Knight
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-12-24· cited 4×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. GOODMAN
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Conti
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-09-22· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Badger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Stanton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-19· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Corbin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-05-25· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Walls
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-22· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Casella
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-15· cited 13×