245 Pa. Super. 174 - Commonwealth v. Westbrook’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
October 1994
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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