Commonwealth v. Minnick’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably Commonwealth v. Fiero (1975), Commonwealth v. Robinson (1973)
3 federal appellate · 62 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. Walters · Commonwealth v. Stokes · Commonwealth v. Mitchell · Commonwealth v. Hoffman · Commonwealth v. Richardson
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question of waiver is often a complicated legal one. There may be ‘extraordinary circumstances’ which will justify petitioner’s failure to raise the issue. There may have been an intervening change in the law which will not entitle him to relief. . . . And failure to raise an issue constitutes only a ‘rebuttable presumption’ of waiver. . . . These are not the kinds of issues which we can expect an uncounseled petitioner to adequately deal with. . . . ” [Citations omitted.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Commonwealth v. Hoffman, 426 Pa. 226 , 232 A.2d 623 (1967) (per curiam) and Commonwealth v. Richardson, 426 Pa. 419 , 233 A.2d 183 (1967) (per curiam) clearly held that § 12 of the Post-Conviction Hearing Act imposes a mandatory requirement upon the trial court to appoint counsel for an indigent post-conviction petitioner.”
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.