2000 Pa. Super. 202 - Commonwealth v. Farmer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““To prevail on a claim of trial counsel’s ineffectiveness to call a witness, the [appellant] must show: (1) that the witness existed; (2) that the witness was available; (3) that counsel was informed of the existence of the witness or should have known of the witness’s existence; (4) that the witness was prepared to cooperate and would have testified on appellant’s behalf; and (5) that the absence of the testimony prejudiced appellant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2001 Pa. Super. 62 - Commonwealth v. Burton

2. “As the victim left the bowling alley, [a]ppellant grabbed her shoulders, physically pushed her backwards and pushed her to his vehicle. Once inside the vehicle, [he] grabbed [her] head [and] ... used his body to hold her down .... she pushed in resistance, including pushing her bowling ball at [him] .... she was unable to run away from [him].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Farmer v. Wilson

3. “`we may not reach the merits of [the] claims' where the Commonwealth has object[ed] to the omission of the [Rule 2119(f) ] statement,'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2003 Pa. Super. 368 - Commonwealth v. Clinger