Commonwealth v. Wharton

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a PCRA petitioner cannot obtain additional review of previously litigated claims by presenting new theories of relief including allegations of ineffectiveness
• stating reply brief is inappropriate means to present new issues and substantively different from those addressed in original brief
• “Claims of ineffective assistance of counsel are not self-proving.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 593×
• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-05-02· cited 402×
• Commonwealth v. Sneed
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-06-04· cited 398×
• Commonwealth v. D'Amato
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-02· cited 351×
• Commonwealth v. Hackett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-09-26· cited 329×
• Commonwealth v. Wharton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-11-28· cited 309×
• Commonwealth v. Rainey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 308×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-10-21· cited 295×
• Commonwealth v. Steele
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-12-18· cited 284×
• Commonwealth v. Baumhammers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-20· cited 216×
• Commonwealth v. Weiss
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-31· cited 185×
• Commonwealth v. Fletcher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 172×
• Commonwealth v. Keaton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-30· cited 158×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-07-06· cited 149×
• Commonwealth v. Uderra
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-10-21· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-27· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-22· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-21· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Bromley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-10-29· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Morris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-01· cited 94×

Cites

29 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×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Bell v. Cone
  Supreme Court· 2002-05-28· cited 4,309×
• Richardson v. Marsh
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 2,670×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Skipper v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-29· cited 1,534×
• Tyrone Werts v. Donald T. Vaughn the District Attorney of the County of Philadelphia the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 2000-09-15· cited 735×
• Gray v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-09· cited 723×
• Commonwealth v. Albrecht
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-23· cited 654×
• Commonwealth v. Lark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-02-23· cited 546×
• 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. Basemore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-20· cited 404×
• Commonwealth v. Pettus
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-05· cited 291×
• Commonwealth v. Bracey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-31· cited 246×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-19· cited 234×
• Commonwealth v. Copenhefer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-05· cited 172×
• Commonwealth v. Gribble
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-20· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. Lambert
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-31· cited 128×