Commonwealth v. Tarver

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that counsel is not ineffective in failing to pursue a meritless claim
• stating counsel cannot be found ineffective for failing to raise meritless claim
• \It is well-settled that counsel may not be deemed ineffective for failing to raise a meritless claim\
• “It is well-settled that counsel may not be deemed ineffective for failing to raise a meritless claim”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-21· cited 416×
• Commonwealth v. Bracey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-31· cited 246×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-19· cited 234×
• Commonwealth v. Lauro
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-02-27· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Meadows
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-31· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-31· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Silver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-09-28· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Barren
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-08· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-01-30· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-01· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Serianni
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-19· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-02· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Gross
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-11-30· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Pritchett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-10-14· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Sawyer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 4×