Commonwealth v. Paddy’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
70
cited by 70 later decisions
1
states following
October 2025
most recently cited
69 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Harrington v. Richter · McNeill v. United States · Bobby v. Van Hook · Commonwealth v. Steele
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] majority of the [Supreme] Court appears to be suggesting that there effectively can be no state-level redress for such deficient stewardship [of PCRA counsel].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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