Commonwealth v. Via’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently March 1996 · most notably Commonwealth v. Fox (1978), Commonwealth v. Sherard (1978)
151 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. Snyder · Commonwealth v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Black · Commonwealth v. Kravitz · Commonwealth ex rel. Kern v. Maroney
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We will not view the failure to raise a claim of incompetency as a waiver where an individual in the subsequent proceeding is represented by the same counsel or one of his associates. The law will not assume that counsel has advised his clients of his inadequacies or those of his associates.””
4 later decisions 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.