254 Pa. Super. 54 - Commonwealth v. Napper’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 2 Cal. 4th 924 - In Re Alvernaz (1992), United States v. Day (1992)
6 federal appellate · 33 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Clair · Commonwealth v. Dancer · Commonwealth v. Via
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[d]efense counsel has a duty to communicate... not only the terms of a plea bargain offer, but also the relative merits of the offer compared to the defendant's chances at trial.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.