Commonwealth v. Jermyn’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Fredric Jermyn v. Martin Horn Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (2001), Commonwealth v. Allen (1999)
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 751
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Faretta v. California · Drope v. Missouri · Gardner v. Florida
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he PCRA court concluded that there was no merit to Jermyn's contentions that defense counsel was ineffective for failing to bring to the attention of the trial court Jermyn's incompetency to stand trial.... We agree with the PCRA Court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Jermyn points to nothing which occurred during trial . . . to establish that he was incompetent to stand trial and that the trial court should have held a hearing on that issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a miscarriage of justice occurred which no civilized society can tolerate.”
2 later decisions 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.