303 Pa. Super. 550 - Commonwealth v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Twiggs · Commonwealth v. Mabie · 187 Pa. Super. 206 - Commonwealth v. Horvath · 265 Pa. Super. 494 - Commonwealth v. Anderson
Most-quoted passages
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“It is the duty of the lawyer to conduct a prompt investigation of the circumstances of the case and explore all avenues leading to facts relevant to guilt and degree of guilt or penalty. Although counsel’s failure to interview witnesses about whom he neither knew nor should have known does not constitute ineffectiveness, he must investigate those he knows or has reason to know would be helpful to the defense.”
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.