Commonwealth v. Watley

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the “mere fact that a defendant may believe that further explanation would have been beneficial does not render a [jury] charge defective.”
• counsel is not ineffective for failing to raise meritless claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-04· cited 461×
• People v. Ross
  California Court of Appeal· 2007-09-28· cited 158×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-02-16· cited 66×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Commonwealth v. Stonehouse
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-03· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Blount
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-24· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Watson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-08· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-17· cited 28×