McClure v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
states following
August 1999
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lewis v. United States · Baldasar v. Illinois · Flores v. United States · Whorley v. Commonwealth
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“direct or collateral consequences [of an uncounseled misdemeanor conviction] which relate to the loss of liberty and imprisonment cannot stand . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e feel that the use of uncounseled misdemeanor convictions in an habitual offender adjudication and the subsequent conviction for driving after such an adjudication does not violate the Sixth Amendment ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n uncounseled misdemean- or conviction ... is not invalid per se and consequential civil disabilities are not invalid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.