Commonwealth v. Piper’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Grant (2002), Commonwealth v. McKenna (1978)
3 federal appellate · 93 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 Pointer v. Texas · Desist v. United States · Williams v. United States · Hill v. California · Lindsey v. State of Washington
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“claim of ineffectiveness respecting diminished capacity that encompassed direct appeal counsel, since the underlying claim had been waived on direct appeal. The new claim was raised for the first time in appellant's allocatur petition. Under the terms of the PCRA, and this Court's precedent, the Court simply cannot review or grant relief upon this claim. As a general rule, issues which were not raised in the court below are waived on appeal. Pa.R.A.P. 302(a) (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Failure to pursue an issue on appeal is just as effective a forfeiture as the failure to initially raise the issue”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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