253 Pa. Super. 460 - Commonwealth v. Quartman’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 290 Pa. Super. 254 - Commonwealth v. Hutchinson (1981), 280 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth v. Clark (1981)
36 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 Luck v. United States · Commonwealth v. Bighum · Commonwealth v. Amos · Commonwealth v. Maloney · Commonwealth v. Turner
Most-quoted passages
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“"Had counsel desired curative instructions in the instant case, he could have requested them. It is clear that counsel should likewise be permitted to request that the court not give curative instructions sua sponte. In hindsight, counsel's decision to forego curative instructions may prove to have been a tactical error; it is likewise irremediable. In every case, it is a tactical decision to be made by defense counsel, and the rendering of an unfavorable verdict should not entitle a defendant, who did not elect to protect himself to the maximum in his first trial, to an automatic retrial." 253 Pa.Super. at 464 , 385 A.2d at 431-32 (emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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