Commonwealth v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• counsel found ineffective for failing to interview witnesses; Commonwealth’s argument rejected that defendant had to show that counsel’s conduct prejudiced him
• counsel found ineffective for failing to interview witnesses; Commonwealth's argument rejected that defendant had to show that counsel's conduct prejudiced him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Garvin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-23· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-16· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Burrell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-08· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Gainor
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-24· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Hook
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-28· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-08-27· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Whyatt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-06· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Borelli
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Stitzel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Payne
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 3×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Commonwealth v. Mabie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 129×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Badger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Hubbard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-05· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Lochman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-20· cited 17×