Quarels v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2024
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Blockburger v. United States · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Edwards v. Arizona
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We might note that in all cases a full-blown evidentiary hearing with witness testimony, etc., may not always be necessary. In certain instances, judicial economy will dictate that an “abbreviated” hearing should follow. For example, counsel may agree to stipulate to certain evidence, such as a mental health expert’s finding of competency, and the trial court could then make a finding of competency based upon those stipulations. We reiterate though, that even if defense counsel insists that competency is not an issue, if the trial court nonetheless has reasonable grounds to believe the defendant is incompetent, it is incumbent that the court hold a formal hearing on the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`[A] structural error' affects the entire framework of the trial and therefore defies harmless error analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Yell v. Commonwealth“`trial error' which may be `quantitatively assessed in the context of other evidence presented . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Yell v. Commonwealth
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.