Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 8/20/1998
Commonwealth v. Taylor
Citations
- 718 A.2d 743
- 553 Pa. 144
- 1998 Pa. LEXIS 1768
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that counsel’s failure to override defendant’s decision not to present mitigating evidence during penalty phase was not ineffective assistance of counsel
- stating that generally “counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for failing to override the decisions of his client”
- “Woven into Taylor’s claim of ineffectiveness is the assertion . . . .”
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Judges: Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman, Saylor
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11 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. Gamboa-TaylorSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-06-19· cited 603×
- Commonwealth v. BasemoreSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-20· cited 404×
- Thomas v. HornThird Circuit· 2009-07-01· cited 253×
- Taylor v. HornThird Circuit· 2007-09-20· cited 237×
- Commonwealth v. TaylorSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-05-29· cited 180×
- Commonwealth v. PuksarSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-22· cited 159×
- Commonwealth v. DavidoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-02-25· cited 114×
- Commonwealth v. FisherSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 87×
- In Re Suspension of the Capital Unitary Review ActSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-19· cited 20×
- Commonwealth v. Taylor, P., Aplt.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-11-06
- Commonwealth v. Taylor, P., Aplt.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-09-29
Cites
9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Commonwealth v. TravagliaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-23· cited 541×
- Commonwealth v. MoralesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-09-17· cited 316×
- Commonwealth v. PierceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-01· cited 246×
- Homrich v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1996-02-20· cited 107×
- Commonwealth v. SamSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-12-08· cited 99×
- Commonwealth v. AppelSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-01-28· cited 88×
- Commonwealth v. BeasleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-18· cited 80×
- Commonwealth v. CollinsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-12-30· cited 35×
- Commonwealth v. Gamboa-TaylorSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-12-09· cited 8×
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