206 Pa. Super. 498 - Commonwealth v. Werner’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Geders v. United States (1976), Commonwealth v. Vivian (1967)
10 federal appellate · 23 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Venuto · Commonwealth v. Boyd
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to have the assistance of counsel is too fundamental and absolute to allow courts to indulge in nice calculations as to the amount of prejudice arising from its denial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“I don't want him to discuss this testimony with you”
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.