Commonwealth v. Walls

How courts have described this case

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

• remanding for evidentiary hearing where defendant suffered from a significant hearing impairment and counsel failed to secure an interpreter; citing Strickland prejudice prong
• remanding for an evidentiary hearing by the PCRA court where the resolution of genuine issues of material fact would affect a finding of trial counsel’s ineffectiveness
• remanding for evidentiary hearing where appellant’s ineffectiveness claim, “[a]t a minimum, … raise[d] genuine issues of material fact which [could not] be resolved on the existing record.”
• stating, \It is within the PCRA court's discretion to decline to hold a hearing if the petitioner's claim is patently frivolous and has no support either in the record or other evidence.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Cintora
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-06-28· cited 327×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-17· cited 231×
• Com. of Pa. v. Diaz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-03-23· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Masker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-12-15· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-06-11· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. McLaurin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-25· cited 35×
• Clay Stuart Gregory v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2025-06-25

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Commonwealth v. Carr
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-02-22· cited 670×
• State v. Schaim
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1992-10-28· cited 617×
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 593×
• Commonwealth v. Kimball
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-22· cited 512×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-21· cited 416×
• Commonwealth v. Halley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-03-29· cited 346×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-12-22· cited 339×
• Commonwealth v. Turetsky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-06-01· cited 315×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-10-21· cited 295×
• Commonwealth v. Jordan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-04-11· cited 241×
• Commonwealth v. Bryant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-18· cited 200×
• Commonwealth v. Howard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-08· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. Hardcastle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-10-01· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Harmon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-09-17· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Sinclair
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-04-11· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-22· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Khalifah
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-06-16· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-25· cited 50×