Commonwealth v. Baldwin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• where underlying claim is meritless, inquiry into counsel's actions ceases as counsel cannot be ineffective for failing to assert meritless claim
• where underlying claim is meritless, inquiry into counsel’s actions ceases as counsel cannot be ineffective for failing to assert meritless claim
• where the underlying claim is meritless, the Inquiry mto counsels actions need go no further ...for counsel cannot be ineffective for failing 10 assert a meritless claim
• where the underlying claim is meritless, the inquiry into counsel's actions need go no further, \for counsel cannot be ineffective for failing to assert a meritless claim\
• “[C]ounsel cannot be ineffective for failing to assert a meritless claim.”
• where underlying claim is meritless, ineffectiveness inquiry ceases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Boyer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-03· cited 218×
• Commonwealth v. Walters
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-20· cited 40×
• Rice v. Wynder
  Third Circuit· 2009-09-30

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Yager
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-11-07· cited 175×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-27· cited 120×
• Hussein v. Raban Supply Co.
  Supreme Court· 1996-10-21· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Ciptak
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-10-11· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Stark
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-06· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-04-03· cited 17×
• Carter v. Muller
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1999-04-08· cited 5×