Commonwealth v. Rivers

How courts have described this case

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

• sets forth test to determine whether counsel is ineffective for not putting a defendant on the stand at trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Buterbaugh
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-05-13· cited 510×
• Commonwealth v. French
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-11· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Marks
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-18· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Lester
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-02-23· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Szarko
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-12· cited 6×

Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 264×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 207×
• Commonwealth v. McNeil
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-08· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Clemmons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-28· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Petras
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-11-30· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Stoyko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-17· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Amos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Vogel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-27· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Hentosh
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-03· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Logan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Madison
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-08· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Wade
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-05-27· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Beck
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-06· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Shore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-01· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Osborn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-18· cited 31×
• Hreha v. Benscoter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-01-24· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Ignatavich
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-10-05· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Blagman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-31· cited 22×