Commonwealth v. Weaver

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that even if diminished capacity was the only viable defense, trial counsel would be deemed ineffective for presenting this defense without the consent of the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-05-02· cited 402×
• Commonwealth v. Rainey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 308×
• Commonwealth v. Hutchinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-22· cited 298×
• Commonwealth v. Weiss
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-31· cited 185×
• Commonwealth v. Chester
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-24· cited 171×
• Commonwealth v. Paolello
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-22· cited 134×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-27· cited 117×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Montalvo, M.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-03-26· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Laird
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-01· cited 88×
• Porter v. Horn
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2003-06-26· cited 50×
• State v. Joseph
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2003-12-10· cited 31×
• State v. Tribble
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2012-12-21· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Morley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-24· cited 1×
• Com. v. Yaw, L.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-11-21

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Walzack
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Mizell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-10· cited 23×