Commonwealth v. Lawrence

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “whether to request additional points for charge is one of the tactical decisions within the exclusive province of counsel. We should not invade that province and declare counsel ineffective if any reasonable basis for counsel’s decision existed at the time of trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-02-13· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-29· cited 50×
• Com. v. Ramos, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-04-15· cited 17×
• Com. v. Beatty, B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-05-05

Cites

42 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×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Commonwealth v. Bennett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-23· cited 1,230×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-03-18· cited 958×
• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-29· cited 764×
• Commonwealth v. Koehler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-01-20· cited 580×
• Commonwealth v. Lantzy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-07· cited 472×
• Commonwealth v. Burton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-05-13· cited 470×
• Commonwealth v. Edmiston
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-24· cited 419×
• Commonwealth v. Halley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-03-29· cited 346×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-12-22· cited 339×
• Commonwealth v. Reaves
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-31· cited 311×
• Commonwealth v. Rainey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 308×
• Commonwealth v. Paddy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-07-08· cited 285×
• Commonwealth v. LaCava
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-19· cited 252×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-29· cited 181×
• Commonwealth v. Mallory
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-02-19· cited 174×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-30· cited 169×