2003 Pa. Super. 457 - Commonwealth v. Dent’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably 2007 Pa. Super. 48 - Commonwealth v. Hardy (2007), Commonwealth v. Manivannan (2018)
33 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Story · Commonwealth v. Grant · In re the Primary Election of May 21, 1991
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The admissibility of evidence is solely within the discretion of the trial court and will be reversed only if the trial court has abused its discretion." Commonwealth v. Cunningham , 805 A.2d 566 , 572 (Pa. Super. 2002), appeal denied , 573 Pa. 663 , 820 A.2d 703 (2003). "An abuse of discretion is not merely an error of judgment, but is rather the overriding or misapplication of the law, or the exercise of judgment that is manifestly unreasonable, or the result of bias, prejudice, ill-will or partiality, as shown by the evidence of record." Commonwealth v. Cameron , 780 A.2d 688 , 692 (Pa. Super. 2001).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Waiting to raise claims on collateral review affords the opportunity to develop a factual basis for the claim that counsel’s performance did not meet the standard for effective assistance of trial counsel. Many of these claims are based on omissions, which, by their very nature, do not appear on the record and thus, require further fact-finding, extra-record investigation and where necessary, an evidentiary hearing. Related to this rationale is the general belief that an appellate court should not consider issues that were not raised and developed in the court below. Courts have recognized that this general rule and its accompanying rationale apply equally to ineffectiveness claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(а) Any evidence favorable to the accused that is material either to guilt or to punishment, and is within the possession or control of the attorney for the Commonwealth;”
2 later decisions 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.