Commonwealth v. Walker

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that merely because a tactic was ultimately unsuccessful does not render trial counsel ineffective
• approvingly citing the PCRA court’s conclusion that “the victim’s criminal history was a matter of public record and thus available to the defense”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Mason, L., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-12-29· cited 619×
• Commonwealth v. Busanet
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-10-19· cited 369×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-11-26· cited 238×
• Commonwealth v. Reid, A., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-20· cited 194×
• Commonwealth v. Baumhammers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-05-27· cited 187×
• Commonwealth v. Eichinger, J., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-31· cited 169×
• Commonwealth v. Keaton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-30· cited 158×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Solano, R.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-12-21· cited 152×
• Commonwealth, Aplt v. Pelzer, K.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-30· cited 104×
• Com. v. Selenski, H.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-02-04· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Philistin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-07-18· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-06-11· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. McLaurin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-25· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-04-26· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Champney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-24· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-03· cited 15×
• Com. v. Grush, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-04-11· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Solano, R., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-12-21
• Com. v. Miller, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-06-11
• Benjamin Young v. State of Alabama
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2023-03-24

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Harrington v. Richter
  Supreme Court· 2011-01-19· cited 13,244×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Commonwealth v. Grant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 1,205×
• Banks v. Dretke
  Supreme Court· 2004-02-24· cited 1,098×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-03-18· cited 958×
• Commonwealth v. Hubbard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 854×
• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-29· cited 764×
• Commonwealth v. Albrecht
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-23· cited 654×
• Commonwealth v. Kimball
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-22· cited 512×
• Commonwealth v. Bomar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 478×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-04· cited 461×
• Commonwealth v. McGill
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-29· cited 412×
• Commonwealth v. Dancer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 407×
• Commonwealth v. Basemore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-20· cited 404×
• Commonwealth v. Paddy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-30· cited 385×
• Commonwealth v. Lark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-20· cited 330×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-27· cited 322×