Commonwealth v. Stock’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lantzy (1999), Commonwealth v. Peterkin (1998)
79 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 Bass v. Commonwealth · West Penn Power Company v. Goddard · Cook v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review · 296 Pa. Super. 441 - Commonwealth v. Miranda · Commonwealth v. Wilkerson
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, an appeal nunc pro tunc is only granted in civil cases where there was fraud or a breakdown in the court’s operations. West Penn Power Co. v. Goddard, 460 Pa. 551 , 333 A.2d 909 (1975). However, this rule has been expanded to permit appeals nunc pro tunc in instances other than fraud or a breakdown in the court’s operations. “In recent years, however, the courts have somewhat liberalized this rigid standard” which required fraud or a breakdown in the court’s operation. Roderick v. Commonwealth of Pa., State Civ. Service Com., 76 Pa.Commw. 329, 332, 463 A.2d 1261, 1263 (1983). See, e.g., Cook v. Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review, 543 Pa. 381 , 671 A.2d 1130 (1996) (hospitalization of litigant during the running of the appeals period which resulted in the non-negligent late filing of the appeal supplied grounds for granting an appeal nunc pro tunc); Bass v. Commonwealth, 485 Pa. 256 , 401 A.2d 1133 (1979)(where the conduct of the attorney or his agent is non-negligent and results in the failure to timely file an appeal, an appeal nunc pro tunc should be allowed); Perry v. Commonwealth of Pa., Unemployment Bd. of Review, 74 Pa.Commw. 388, 459 A.2d 1342 (1983)(same); Tony Grande, Inc. v. W.C.A.B. (Rodriguez), 71 Pa.Commw. 566, 455 A.2d 299 (1983)(same); Walker v. Commonwealth of Pa., Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review, 75 Pa.Commw. 116, 461 A.2d 346 (1983)(where Post Office negligently failed to forward referee’s decision, which resulted in untimely filing of appe”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Wjhere there is an unjustified failure to file a requested direct appeal, the conduct of counsel falls beneath the range of competence demanded of attorneys in criminal cases, denies the accused the assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 9 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, as well as the right to direct appeal under Article V, Section 9, and constitutes prejudice for purposes of Section 9543(a)(2)(ii). Therefore, in such circumstances, and where the remaining requirements of the PCRA are satisfied, the petitioner is not required to establish his innocence or demonstrate the merits of the issue or issues which would have been raised on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ppellant is not able to vindicate his right to appeal via the Post Conviction Relief Act since he is ... not 'incarcerated in this Commonwealth under a sentence of death or imprisonment or on parole or probation.’ ”). Stock also discusses the evolution and development of Pennsylvania case law regarding the general rules for appeals nunc pro tunc:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garrison v. State
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.