Commonwealth v. Elam

How courts have described this case

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

• “Counsel may not be held ineffective for failing to pursue a frivolous course of action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Commonwealth v. Hubbard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 854×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-30· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Shore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-01· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Bastone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-01-19· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Elam
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-21· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Elam
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-02-05· cited 1×