Commonwealth v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Johnson (2009), Commonwealth v. Spotz (2011)
92 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Batson v. Kentucky · Williams v. Taylor
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“beneficial under the circumstances of the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional conduct, the result of the proceedings would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[N]one of the evidence of Green’s possible involvement in the murders proffered by Appellant in his PCRA petition directly contradicts the Commonwealth’s presentation at trial. Significantly, the fact that Tancemore and Green had previously committed robberies together, even if accepted as true, does not imply that Appellant was not involved on this occasion, particularly as another proposed witness would have testified that Appellant left in the company of both Tancemore and Green, and Appellant himself admitted that he had been at the bar on the night of the murders. Similarly, the statement of a witness indicating that he did not see Appellant shooting at the bar does not demonstrate that Appellant did not fire a weapon; rather, in the absence of any indication that the witness’s view of Appellant was uninterrupted, it simply reflects that the wit-néss did not make such an observation. In addition, as both the Commonwealth and the PCRA court noted, the testimony of the witnesses could have been impeached with their prior convictions for several robberies, a crimen falsi offense. Thus, considering the evidence presented at trial, including Appellant’s statement to the detectives admitting participation in the murders and the testimony of several eyewitnesses positively identifying Appellant as one of the perpetrators, we conclude that the PCRA court did not err in dismissing this claim, despite the evidentiary proffer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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