Commonwealth v. Watley

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an order granting in part and denying in part all issues raised in a PCRA petition is a final order for purposes of appeal
• holding: an order granting in part and denying in part all issues raised in a PCRA petition is a final order for purposes of appeal
• holding an order granting in part and denying in part all issues raised in a PCRA petition is a final order for purposes of appeal
• finding that because the claim that the evidence should have been suppressed was without merit, counsel was not ineffective for failing to file a motion to suppress
• explaining that it was not relevant to reasonable suspicion inquiry that “neither of the troopers testified that they feared for their safety”; rather, relevant inquiry is objective reasonableness of search
• stating counsel will not be found ineffective for failing to file a motion to suppress if the grounds asserted for that motion lack merit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Grove
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-08-31· cited 98×
• Com. v. Carver, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-05-31· cited 8×
• Com. v. Hunter, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-03-17· cited 1×
• Com. v. Enos, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-08

Cites

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

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Alleyne v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2013-06-17· cited 5,868×
• Michigan v. Long
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 3,763×
• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-29· cited 764×
• Commonwealth v. Newman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-20· cited 623×
• Commonwealth v. Ousley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-05-13· cited 481×
• Commonwealth v. Watley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-11-25· cited 414×
• Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-29· cited 410×
• Commonwealth v. Ligons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-05-27· cited 218×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-06-19· cited 210×
• Commonwealth v. Lively
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-18· cited 160×
• Commonwealth v. Porter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-16· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Carmody
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-15· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Morris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-01· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Ransome
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-06· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Frey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-03-20· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. McCrae
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-29· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Gaines
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-11-05· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Melson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-09· cited 51×