249 Pa. Super. 98 - Commonwealth v. Matt’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1996
13 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 Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Clair · Commonwealth v. Blair · Commonwealth v. Dancer · Commonwealth v. Twiggs
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ounsel must raise his own ineffectiveness, if he is to raise it at all, at the first available time. In the instant case, counsel would have had to raise that claim in post-trial motions. Failing that, counsel could have contended before this Court that he had been ineffective in failing to file proper post-trial motions and requested the right to file post-verdict motions nunc pro tunc. Be cause counsel did not raise the claim properly, we hold that the issue is waived. Commonwealth v. Matt, 249 Pa.Super. 98, 106-107 , 375 A.2d 777, 780-781 (1977) (Hoffman, J., with three judges joining, three judges concurring in the result) (footnotes and citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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