411 Pa. Super. 329 - Commonwealth v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lord (1998), Commonwealth v. Labron (1995)
46 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Commonwealth v. Kloiber · Klusman v. Bucks County Court of Common Pleas · Smith v. Westchester County Bar Ass'n · Commonwealth v. Devers
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to successfully set forth a claim of ineffectiveness of counsel for failure to call or investigate a potential witness, an appellant must establish four essential points of information. First, he must identify the alleged witnesses. Second, he must demonstrate defense counsel knew of the existence of those witnesses prior to the time of trial. Third, he must demonstrate the witnesses would have provided material evidence at the time of trial. And fourth, the appellant must establish the manner in which the witnesses would have been helpful to his case. Commonwealth v. Weinder, 395 Pa.Super. 608 , 577 A.2d 1364 (1990). Where it is clear that the allegations against defense counsel are baseless or without merit an evidentiary hearing is unnecessary. See Commonwealth v. Egan, 335 Pa.Super. 474 , 484 A.2d 802 (1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a defendant is ordered to file a concise statement of matters complained of on appeal, pursuant to Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b), and fails to raise a particular matter within that statement, the defendant is deemed to have waived that point of error on appeal. Commonwealth v. Warren, 332 Pa.Super. 410 , 481 A.2d 681 (1984); Pa.R.AP. 1925(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether the sentence imposed was manifestly excessive so as to inflict too severe a punishment on the appellant?”
1 later decision 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.