Commonwealth v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the appropriate remedy for the prosecuting attorney’s breach of an agreement to make no recommendation as to sentencing was to permit the defendant to withdraw his guilty plea
• motion to withdraw a guilty plea

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Coles
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-08-24· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Kroh
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-02-22· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Fruehan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-04-25· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Martinez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-16· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Spencer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-08-02· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Comp
  Chester County Court of Common Pleas· 1988-03-09
• Commonwealth v. Walters
  Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas· 1990-09-18

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• Commonwealth v. Riggins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-08-17· cited 471×
• Commonwealth v. Zuber
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 128×
• Waller v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-12-11· cited 115×
• United States v. Lawrence J. Block
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-11-12· cited 78×
• United States v. Ronald Miller
  Third Circuit· 1977-11-15· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Landi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-25· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. May
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-05· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Potosnak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-24· cited 15×
• People v. Santobello
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1972-05-09· cited 15×
• United States v. Johnny Ray Johnson, A/K/A James Evans, A/K/A Michael Lee Charles
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-10-13· cited 13×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-12-11· cited 3×
• Block v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-29· cited 3×
• Miller v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-12· cited 2×