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.

• holding that neither the United States nor the Pennsylvania Constitution requires a defendant to “be provided with counsel when he or she was charged with a summary offense [where] there was no likelihood that imprisonment would be imposed”
• summary offenses which do not involve the likelihood of imprisonment do not create a right to counsel under federal or state constitutions or state law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Alabama v. Shelton
  Supreme Court· 2002-05-20· cited 330×
• Commonwealth v. Stock
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-26· cited 146×
• State v. Laurick
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1990-06-25· cited 87×
• United States v. Nancy Bucaro, Larry Lawrence, George Jose Turner, Andre Rashid Kirby and Monica Johnson. Appeal of Andre Kirby
  Third Circuit· 1990-04-11· cited 44×
• Sargent v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-06· cited 42×
• Staub v. Toy Factory, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-23· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Tilghman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-01· cited 33×
• Borough of Kennett Square v. Lal
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-06-08· cited 25×
• Olevsky v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1988-09-16· cited 21×
• Moore v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1987-10-13· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Long
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-12-20· cited 13×
• State v. Xenidis
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-04-26· cited 9×
• State v. Chance
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-04-08· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Breslin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-05-21· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Mortimer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-08-25· cited 2×
• State v. Xenidis
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-06-27
• Commonwealth v. Haegele
  Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas· 1988-09-08
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-10-29

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• Duncan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 3,740×
• Marks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-01· cited 2,149×
• Scott v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-05· cited 1,061×
• Baldwin v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 789×
• Baldasar v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-16· cited 553×
• Commonwealth v. Katchmer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 74×