Commonwealth v. Kenney’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Butler (2002), Commonwealth v. Haag (2002)
41 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 Commonwealth v. Lawson · Commonwealth v. Ellis · Commonwealth v. Allen · Commonwealth v. Grazier · Commonwealth v. Griffin
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An indigent petitioner has the right to appointment of counsel to assist in prosecuting a first PCRA petition. Pa.R.Crim.P. 1504(a). Where that right has been effectively denied by the action of court or counsel, the petitioner is entitled to a remand to the PCRA court for appointment of counsel to prosecute the PCRA petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`must be raised at the earliest stage in the proceedings at which the allegedly ineffective counsel is no longer representing the claimant.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Commonwealth v. Ford
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.