Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 11/26/1973
Commonwealth v. Owens
Citations
- 454 Pa. 268
- 312 A.2d 378
- 1973 Pa. LEXIS 756
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that “the time actually spent by counsel with the accused discussing his case is not necessarily related to, and affords no basis for inferring, the extent of total trial preparation”
- failure to call alibi witness is not per se ineffective assistance of counsel
- time spent in consultation did not exceed one hour
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Jones, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Mander-Ino
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49 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Commonwealth v. DancerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 407×
- Commonwealth v. TwiggsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 298×
- Commonwealth v. ElliottSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-11-21· cited 165×
- Commonwealth v. MabieSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 129×
- Commonwealth v. WatleySuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-12-29· cited 123×
- Commonwealth v. SmallwoodSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-10· cited 67×
- Commonwealth v. HoffmanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-04-18· cited 42×
- Commonwealth v. ThomasSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-02-24· cited 40×
- Commonwealth v. FordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 35×
- LaCourt v. CommonwealthCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-05· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. WallaceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-27· cited 30×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-18· cited 30×
- Commonwealth v. SirianniSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-16· cited 27×
- State v. StaplesSupreme Court of New Hampshire· 1981-11-16· cited 25×
- Commonwealth v. JonesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-16· cited 24×
- Commonwealth v. OlivenciaSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-20· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. TorresSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-18· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-01· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-18· cited 20×
- Commonwealth v. McCaskillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-10-21· cited 20×
Cites
13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Chambers v. MaroneySupreme Court· 1970-10-12· cited 4,391×
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. MaroneySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
- Commonwealth v. HillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 94×
- Commonwealth v. McGroganSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-30· cited 61×
- Commonwealth v. WoodySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-11-12· cited 47×
- Commonwealth v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-03-18· cited 46×
- Commonwealth v. KarchellaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-17· cited 29×
- Commonwealth ex rel. Dion v. TeesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-11-16· cited 25×
- Commonwealth v. SkipperSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-11-12· cited 20×
- Commonwealth v. BerrySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-10-09· cited 14×
- Commonwealth ex rel. Johnson v. RussellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-15· cited 13×
- United States ex rel. Green v. RundleE.D. Pennsylvania· 1969-10-20· cited 2×
- Commonwealth v. OwensSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-01-04· cited 1×
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