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← 2012 Pa. Super. 47 - Commonwealth v. Clyburn

2012 Pa. Super. 47 - Commonwealth v. Clyburn’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Faretta v. California · McKaskle v. Wiggins · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Kaloustian · Commonwealth v. Starr · Commonwealth v. Davido

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “To ensure that the defendant's waiver of the right to counsel is knowing, voluntary, and intelligent, the judge [...] shall elicit [...] that the defendant understands the nature of the charges against the defendant and the elements of each of those charges[.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Failure to conduct a thorough, on-the-record colloquy before allowing a defendant to proceed to trial pro se constitutes reversible error”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “it is incumbent on the court to fully advise the accused [of the nature and elements of the crime] before accepting waiver of counsel.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.