2009 Pa. Super. 76 - Commonwealth v. Prysock’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2024
14 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 Ungar v. Sarafite · United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez · Mielcuszny Et Ux. v. Rosol (Et Ux.) · Federal Trade Commission v. Broch · Commonwealth v. Novak
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a myopic insistence upon expeditiousness in the face of a justifiable request for delay can render the right to defend with counsel an empty formality.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he right to counsel is guaranteed by both the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and by Article I, Section 9 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. In addition to guaranteeing representation of the indigent, these constitutional rights entitle an accused "to choose at his own cost and expense any lawyer he may desire." Commonwealth v. Novak , 395 Pa. 199 , 213, 150 A.2d 102 , 109, cert denied , 361 U.S. 882 , 80 S.Ct. 152 , 4 L.Ed.2d 118 (1959). The right to "counsel of one's choosing is particularly significant because an individual facing criminal sanctions should have great confidence in his attorney." Moore v. Jamieson , 451 Pa. 299 , 307-08, 306 A.2d 283 , 288 (1973). We had held, however, that the constitutional right to counsel of one's choice is not absolute. Commonwealth v. Robinson , 468 Pa. 575 , 592-93 & n. 13, 364 A.2d 665 (1976). Rather, "the right of the accused to choose his own counsel, as well as the lawyer's right to choose his clients, must be weighed against and may be reasonably restricted by the state's interest in the swift and efficient administration of criminal justice." Id. at 592, 364 A.2d at 674 (internal quotations omitted). Thus, this Court has explained that while defendants are entitled to choose their own counsel, they should not be permitted to unreasonably "clog the machinery of justice or hamper and delay the state's efforts to effectively administer justice." Commonwealth v. Baines , 480 Pa. 26 , 30, 389 A.2d 68 , 70 (1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“clog the machinery of justice or hamper and delay the state's efforts to effectively administer justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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