Commonwealth v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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• holding that this Court is required to docket a pro se notice of appeal despite Appellant being represented by counsel
• holding that a pro se notice of appeal protects a constitutional right and is distinguishable from other filings
• holding that this Court must docket a pro se notice of appeal even if the appellant is represented by counsel
• holding that, when a petitioner is represented by counsel, pro se motions have no legal effect and, therefore, are legal nullities
• holding that where a criminal defendant files a motion pro se while represented by counsel, the pro se motion is deemed to be a legal nullity with no legal effect
• holding that, unlike other filings, because notice of appeal protects a constitutional right this Court is required to docket a pro se notice of appeal despite an appellant being represented by counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Com. v. Stansbury, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-09-05· cited 300×
• Commonwealth v. DiClaudio
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-05-21· cited 103×
• S.C.B. v. J.S.B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-08-20· cited 61×
• Com. v. Vinson, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-04-14· cited 49×
• Com. v. Bankhead, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-08-23· cited 35×
• Com. v. Hopkins, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-02-07· cited 33×
• Com. v. Williams, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-09-25· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Hodges
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-07-16· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Rominger
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-11-28· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Fill
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-01-04· cited 20×
• Com. v. Moore, B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-12-01· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Baney
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-05-18· cited 8×
• Com. v. Muhammed, Y.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-09-30· cited 1×
• Com. v. Green, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-10-07· cited 1×
• Com. v. Wooden, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-07-19
• In the Int. of: Q.-C.P., Appeal of: F.H.-P.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-05-31
• Com. v. Robinson, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-07-31
• Com. v. Bradley, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-10-31
• Com. v. Isadore, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-06-09

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Alleyne v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2013-06-17· cited 5,868×
• Commonwealth v. Moury
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-03-24· cited 2,101×
• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-06-05· cited 933×
• Commonwealth v. Treiber, S., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-17· cited 629×
• Commonwealth v. Newman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-20· cited 623×
• Commonwealth v. Nischan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-05· cited 516×
• Commonwealth v. Jette
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-22· cited 371×
• Commonwealth v. Leatherby
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-21· cited 362×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-27· cited 319×
• Commonwealth v. Lamonda
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-08-29· cited 241×
• Commonwealth v. Vargas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-31· cited 219×
• Commonwealth v. Cooper
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-09-29· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. Treadway
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-11-13· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-06-24· cited 32×