Commonwealth v. Albert’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Albrecht (1998), Commonwealth v. Holmes (2013)
42 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 Pennsylvania v. Finley · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Karis v. Karis · Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is axiomatic that the right to counsel includes the concomitant right to effective assistance of counsel. Indeed the right to counsel is meaningless if effective assistance is not guaranteed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“At the outset, we note that in this Commonwealth one who is indigent is entitled to the appointment of counsel to assist with an initial collateral attack after judgment of sentence.”
2 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.