Commonwealth v. Whitney

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a study of the criminal justice system did not constitute newly-discovered evidence under Section 9545(b)(1)(ii) where the underlying statistics were part of the public record
• holding the timeliness of a PCRA petition is a “threshold question implicating [the court’s] subject matter jurisdiction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Bennett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-23· cited 1,230×
• Commonwealth v. Chester
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-21· cited 452×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Burton, S.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-03-28· cited 444×
• Commonwealth v. Edmiston
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-24· cited 419×
• 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. Zeigler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-09-14· cited 258×
• Commonwealth v. Burton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-25· cited 181×
• Commonwealth v. Beatty
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-08· cited 160×
• David Munchinski v. Harry Wilson
  Third Circuit· 2012-09-11· cited 147×
• Commonwealth v. Judge
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-02-21· cited 122×
• Com. v. Howard, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-11-09· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Smallwood
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-02-01· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-03-30· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-08-20· cited 33×
• Commonwealth, Aplt v. Hackett, R.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-18· cited 27×
• Munchinski v. Wilson
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 2011-08-05· cited 19×
• Pocono Mountain Charter School, Inc. v. Pocono Mountain School District
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-26· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Wharton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-19· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Hackett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-10-21· cited 2×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Fahy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-27· cited 1,072×
• Commonwealth v. Lark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-02-23· cited 546×
• Commonwealth v. Peterkin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-21· cited 447×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-05-19· cited 369×
• Commonwealth v. Yarris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-05-21· cited 284×
• Commonwealth v. Pursell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-04-17· cited 250×
• Ex Parte Tom Tong
  Supreme Court· 1883-05-07· cited 168×
• Whitney v. Horn
  Third Circuit· 2002-02-05· cited 165×
• Commonwealth v. Whitney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-15· cited 135×
• Riddle v. Dyche
  Supreme Court· 1923-06-04· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Whitney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-02-26· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Crawley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-10-01· cited 32×
• Whitney v. Horn
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2000-06-07· cited 2×