Commonwealth v. Wideman’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 district · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pierce (1987), Commonwealth v. Hubbard (1977)
2 district · 108 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 Anders v. California · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Jorn · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Shaffer
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d) That the error resulting in his conviction and sentence has not been finally litigated or waived.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Absent a knowing and intelligent waiver, Wideman was entitled to the assistance of counsel throughout the prosecution proceedings. And this means effective assistance of counsel; otherwise, the assistance of counsel would be just an empty gesture, and in effect a denial of counsel in the constitutional sense, and a deprivation of due process. The right to representation by counsel to be meaningful necessarily includes the right to effective representation." Id., 453 Pa. at 123 , 306 A.2d at 896. (Emphasis in original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[d]ouble jeopardy attaches if a mistrial is declared without `manifest necessity' or without the defendant's request or consent. (citations omitted).”
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.