Commonwealth v. Brooks

How courts have described this case

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

• holding failure to hold any meetings with defendant before trial was ineffective assistance of counsel
• indicating trial counsel “never once met with [the defendant] in person before his trial”
• indicating trial counsel “never once met with [the defendant] in person before his trial”
• under Strickland, counsel's failure to meet in person with the defendant before trial constituted ineffective assistance of counsel
• new trial awarded, where the defense attorney “never once met with [his client] before his trial on capital charges”
• “[A] busy schedule simply cannot serve as a reasonable basis for failing to have personal contact with a client prior to that client’s trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-03-18· cited 958×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-10· cited 336×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-11-26· cited 238×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-17· cited 231×
• Commonwealth v. Elliott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-11-21· cited 165×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-27· cited 131×
• Com. of Pa. v. Diaz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-03-23· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-08-15· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Spencer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-01-25· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Britt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-20· cited 35×
• Com. v. Hand, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-05-28· cited 34×
• Urquhart v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-01-24· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-08-12· cited 11×
• Com. v. Saylor, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-01-18· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-04-19· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-09-26
• Commonwealth v. Johnson, M, Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-03-26

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• Bell v. Cone
  Supreme Court· 2002-05-28· cited 4,309×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Mickens v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2002-03-27· cited 1,451×
• Herring v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 1,330×
• Hamilton v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1961-11-13· cited 1,308×
• Commonwealth v. Grant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 1,205×
• Geders v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-30· cited 1,182×
• White v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-04-29· cited 1,066×
• Brooks v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-07· cited 601×
• Commonwealth v. Bomar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 478×
• Ferguson v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1961-03-27· cited 363×
• Williams v. Kaiser
  Supreme Court· 1945-01-08· cited 342×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-01· cited 246×
• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-10-01· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Perry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-01· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Balodis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-02-24· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-24· cited 48×