Commonwealth v. Cathey’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. Szuchon (1984), Commonwealth v. Brown (1980)
51 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 Fay v. Noia · Gray v. Sanders · Commonwealth v. Blair · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Kulp
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to appeal is a personal right which a defendant may relinquish only through a knowing, intelligent and voluntary waiver. Fay v. Noia, 372 U.S. 371 , 83 S.Ct. 822 , 9 L.Ed.2d 837 (1963); Commonwealth v. Jones, 447 Pa. 228 , 286 A.2d 892 (1971); Commonwealth ex rel. Robinson v. Myers, 427 Pa. 104, 107 , 233 A.2d 220, 221-22 (1967); ABA Project on Standards Relating to Criminal Appeals § 2:2(b) (Approved Draft, 1970). To assure that any waiver of this right is knowing and intelligent, this Court has promulgated Pa.R.Crim.P. 1123(c) and 1405(b), which ensure that defendants are informed not only that they have a right to appeal, but also that any issue they wish to raise on appeal must be raised first in post-verdict motions. Thus these rules ensure that defendants are informed of how to exercise their right to appeal effectively.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"`[When] the trial court [does] not comply with Rule 1123(c), petitioner's failure to file adequate post-verdict motions cannot be deemed a knowing and intelligent waiver of his right to appeal.' Commonwealth v. Cathey, 477 Pa. 446, 450 , 384 A.2d 589, 591 (1978)." Commonwealth v. Rowe, 268 Pa.Super. 380, 383 , 408 A.2d 516, 517 (1979). [5]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.