347 Pa. Super. 248 - Commonwealth v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably 371 Pa. Super. 315 - Commonwealth v. Delligatti (1988), 394 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth v. Ennis (1990)
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 Commonwealth v. Pettus · Commonwealth v. Miller · Commonwealth v. Mabie · Commonwealth v. Woodward · Commonwealth v. Rawles
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(Mabie) should not be indiscriminately expanded to require defense counsel upon threat of being declared ineffective, to interview all conceivable witnesses irrespective of the nature or extent of their potential information. Trial counsel’s failure to interview potential witnesses will not be equated with ineffective assistance in the absence of a showing that his or her testimony would have advanced the fact finding process.”
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.