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11 canonical passages across 8 cases, quoted by 184 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. Hernandez.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Commonwealth v. Hernandez Anchor | green | “be filed within 60 days of the date the claims could have been presented.” | 35 |
| 2 | Commonwealth v. Burton | green | “exceptions to the time bar must be pled in the pcra petition, and may not be raised for the first time on appeal.” | 31 |
| 3 | Brooksbey v. Varner | green | “pennsylvania law makes clear that no court has jurisdiction to hear an untimely pcra petition.” | 29 |
| 4 | Commonwealth v. Watts | green | “confers no authority upon appellate courts to fashion ad hoc equitable exceptions to the pcra timebar.” | 19 |
| 5 | Commonwealth v. Hernandez | green | “it is undisputed that a pcra petition must be filed within one year of the date that the judgment of sentence becomes final.” | 19 |
| 6 | Commonwealth v. Jette | green | “serial requests for post-conviction relief.” | 11 |
| 7 | Commonwealth v. Williams | green | “all issues are waived except those which implicate a defendant's innocence or which raise the possibility that the proceedings resulting in conviction were so unfair that a miscarriage of justice which no civilized society can tolerate occurred” | 10 |
| 8 | Commonwealth v. Hawkins | green | “will not be entertained unless a strong prima facie showing is offered to demonstrate that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred.” | 9 |
| 9 | Commonwealth v. Hawkins | green | “a second or subsequent request for relief under the pcra will not be entertained unless the petitioner presents a strong prima facie showing that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred.” | 7 |
| 10 | Commonwealth v. Seskey | green | “without jurisdiction, we simply do not have the legal authority to address the substantive claims.” | 4 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.