Commonwealth v. Reaves’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Steele (2008), Commonwealth v. Hall (2013)
93 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 United States v. Cronic · Roe, Warden v. Flores-Ortega · Commonwealth v. Lantzy · Commonwealth v. Halley · Commonwealth v. Liebel
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Cronic recognized that in some cases, the prejudice inquiry of Strickland is not required because there are certain circumstances ‘that are so likely to prejudice the accused that the cost of litigating their effect in a particular case is unjustified.’ Cronic suggested that where there has been a complete denial of counsel or where the circumstances are such that any competent attorney would be unable to provide effective assistance, a defendant need not demonstrate that he was prejudiced by counsel’s actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(1) when counsel fails to file a requested direct appeal; (2) when counsel neglects to file a requested petition for allowance of appeal with this Court; and (3) when counsel fails to file a court-ordered Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b) Statement of Matters Complained of on Appeal and that failure results in the waiver of all direct appeal claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.