8 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 225 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Commonwealth v. Jackson.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Commonwealth v. Jackson Anchor | green | “courts are without jurisdiction to offer appellant any form of relief.” | 53 |
| 2 | Commonwealth v. Murray | green | “given the fact that the pcra's timeliness requirements are mandatory and jurisdictional in nature, no court may properly disregard or alter them in order to reach the merits of the claims raised in a pcra petition that is filed in an untimely manner” | 51 |
| 3 | Commonwealth v. McKeever | green | “any pcra petition, including a second or subsequent petition, be filed within one year of the date that the petitioner's judgment of sentence becomes final, unless the petitioner pleads and proves that one of the three exceptions to the timeliness requirement . . . is applicable.” | 41 |
| 4 | Commonwealth v. Eichinger, J., Aplt | green | “as a general proposition, we review a denial of pcra relief to determine whether the findings of the pcra court are supported by the record and free of legal error.” | 35 |
| 5 | Commonwealth v. Liebel | green | “review an order granting or denying pcra relief to determine whether the pcra court's decision is supported by evidence of record and whether its decision is free from legal error.” | 23 |
| 6 | Nicholas v. Beard | green | “plead and prove that the information on which he relies could not have been obtained earlier, despite the exercise of due diligence.” | 15 |
| 7 | Commonwealth v. Murray | green | “are mandatory and jurisdictional in nature,” | 3 |
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