Commonwealth v. Ernst’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
43
cited by 43 later decisions
1
states following
October 1988
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Cort v. Ash · Hamling v. United States · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court has never required that an accused object at trial to an instruction fairly reciting the prevailing law in order to be accorded on direct appeal the benefit of a newly announced rule. In Commonwealth v. Cheeks, 429 Pa. 89, 95 , 239 A.2d 793, 796 (1968), we stated that ‘It would be manifestly unfair to hold appellant to a waiver when this waiver is alleged to have occurred at a time when neither the defendant nor his attorney had any way of knowing that there existed a right to be waived.’ ” Id. 476 Pa. at 116 , 381 A.2d at 1252 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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