Peterkin v. Pennsylvania

How courts have described this case

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

• “Appellant’s claim [of trial counsel ineffectiveness at the penalty phase] is meritless and appellate counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for failing to raise a meritless claim”
• \Appellant's claim [of trial counsel ineffectiveness at the penalty phase] is meritless and appellate counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for failing to raise a meritless claim\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-21· cited 416×
• Commonwealth v. Bracey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-31· cited 246×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-19· cited 234×
• Commonwealth v. Meadows
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-31· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-31· cited 80×
• Peterkin v. Horn
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2002-01-07· cited 9×