Commonwealth v. Pfaff

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that absent any claim of ineffective assistance of counsel justifying petitioner’s failure to raise on direct appeal an error in the court’s instructions to the jury, the issue was waived

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lesko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-12· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. DiNicola
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-24· cited 6×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Polimeni
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-02· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Gartner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-01· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-10· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Zillgitt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-30· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Parmer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-01-03· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Pfaff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-11-28· cited 1×