Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 11/20/1997
Commonwealth v. Fowler
Citations
- 703 A.2d 1027
- 550 Pa. 152
- 1997 Pa. LEXIS 2534
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “Counsel can never be deemed ineffective for failing to raise a claim that has no merit.”
- \Counsel can never be deemed ineffective for failing to raise a claim that has no merit.\
- Brion is not to be applied retroactively to cases on collateral appeal
- Brion is not to be applied retroactively to cases on collateral appeal
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman
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12 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. SpotzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-05-02· cited 402×
- Commonwealth v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-29· cited 257×
- Commonwealth v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-03· cited 213×
- Commonwealth v. MontalvoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 168×
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-27· cited 117×
- Commonwealth v. OgrodSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-30· cited 80×
- Commonwealth v. BishopSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-24· cited 57×
- Commonwealth v. ArdestaniSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-29· cited 36×
- Commonwealth v. OverbySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-10-24· cited 25×
- Commonwealth v. AldermanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-11-13· cited 13×
- Commonwealth v. BaileyCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-04-26· cited 1×
- Commonwealth v. HoliznaArmstrong County Court of Common Pleas· 2005-10-28
Cites
31 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
- Rakas v. IllinoisSupreme Court· 1979-01-15· cited 6,103×
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. MaroneySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
- United States v. WhiteSupreme Court· 1971-05-17· cited 1,155×
- On Lee v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1952-10-13· cited 644×
- Commonwealth v. PettusSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-05· cited 291×
- Commonwealth v. CabezaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-29· cited 222×
- Commonwealth v. MillerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 207×
- Commonwealth v. TilghmanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-29· cited 181×
- Commonwealth v. BlystoneSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-17· cited 180×
- Commonwealth v. McCutchenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-07-07· cited 165×
- Commonwealth v. TriplettSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-23· cited 147×
- Commonwealth v. BrionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-30· cited 107×
- Commonwealth v. AppelSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-01-28· cited 88×
- Commonwealth v. WagnerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-04· cited 83×
- Commonwealth v. SchaefferSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-29· cited 76×
- Commonwealth v. RodriguezSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-17· cited 33×
- Commonwealth v. LoudenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-11· cited 31×
- Commonwealth v. PorrecaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-16· cited 31×
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-15· cited 27×
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