Commonwealth v. Rega’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wright (2008), Commonwealth v. Jones (2010)
120 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 Strickland v. Washington · Lindh v. Murphy · Schriro v. Landrigan · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Grant
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“post-verdict motions should not become an accepted repository for laundry lists of collateral-appropriate complaints....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“did not purport to approve such a review paradigm prospectively, as a post Grant matter. Rather, this Court merely took the Hubbard -era record as we found it in Bomar , and proceeded to determine if direct review, or a pointless deferral to PCRA review, of the collateral claims was appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A]ny such unitary review [on direct appeal], should be a substitute for, and not an advance supplement to, PCRA review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.