321 Pa. Super. 170 - Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2000 · most notably 335 Pa. Super. 560 - Commonwealth v. Garvin (1984), 352 Pa. Super. 36 - Commonwealth v. Gamber (1986)
28 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 Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Holloway v. Arkansas
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not condone the practice of counsel from the public defender’s office raising the effective assistance of counsel where trial counsel is a different attorney from the same public defender's office. If a genuine issue of the effectiveness of trial counsel exists, then the public defender should request the trial court to appoint appellate counsel who is not a member of the public defender’s office. The allegation of ineffective assistance of counsel is tantamount to an allegation of incompetency on the part of counsel____ The best interest of an appellant is not served where his counsel must establish that an associate from his office acted in an incompetent manner at trial.”
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.