2001 Pa. Super. 342 - Commonwealth v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2024
9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 379 Pa. Super. 390 - Commonwealth v. Finley · Spring Garden Civic Ass'n v. Zoning Hearing Board of Adjustment of the City of Philadelphia · Commonwealth v. Grazier · Emmett v. Commonwealth · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Fritz
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]ather, when counsel failed to either file an amended petition or to withdraw, and the court refused to appoint substitute counsel, Appellants believed they had no choice but to proceed pro se so that the numerous issues they believed to be meritorious would be preserved for judicial review. Indeed, there has never been any declaration by counsel that the issues Appellants wish to raise are, in fact, meritless, or any explanation of their failure to file amended petitions on Appellants’ behalf.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The indigent petitioner's right to counsel must be honored regardless of the merits of his underlying claims, even where those claims were previously addressed on direct appeal, so long as the petition in question is his first.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.