Commonwealth v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• “According to Rule 1925(b) the lower court must order a concise statement of [errors] complained of on appeal and an appellant must fail to comply with such directive before this Court can find waiver[.]”
• ‘‘[T]he lower court must order a concise statement of [errors] complained of on appeal and appellant must fail to comply with such directive before this Court can find waiver[.]”
• when trial court does not order appellant to file a concise statement of matters complained of on appeal, failure to file statement does not waive issues
• subject-matter jurisdiction is not a waivable issue and may be raised at any stage in the proceeding
• appellant’s failure to file a concise statement regarding the reasons for the appeal was not a violation of Rule 1925(b) because the lower court never ordered appellant to file such a statement
• appellant's failure to file a concise statement regarding the reasons for the appeal was not a violation of Rule 1925(b) because the lower court never ordered appellant to file such a statement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Antidormi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-01-23· cited 1,004×
• Commonwealth v. Hess
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-11-25· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Hogan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-10· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Calderini
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-03· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Caden
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-03-09· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Sestina
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-12· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Perez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-24· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-03· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Boyle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-22· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-24· cited 4×
• Milewski v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-22· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Goodenow
  Bradford County Court of Common Pleas· 1999-04-23

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Little
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Koch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 93×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Chatary v. Nailon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-01-05· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Simeone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-09-15· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-20· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Tarsnane
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-01-17· cited 32×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Yentzer v. Carpenter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-29· cited 27×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Koffel v. Myers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1957-06-11· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Gomori
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-06-15· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-20· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Newman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1923-03-12· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Steffish
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-22· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Ohle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-02-18· cited 16×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Ritchey v. McHugh
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-06-10· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Tegano
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-20· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Varner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-17· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Harmon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-15· cited 8×