Depp v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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

1. “Faretta did not require any specific form or magic words for there to be a knowing and voluntary choice to proceed pro se.”). 3 . See, e.g., Iowa v. Tovar, 541 U.S. 77, 88 , 124 S.Ct. 1379 , 158 L.Ed.2d 209 (2004) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Terry

2. “that [the right to self-representation is] accompanied by the right to be informed by the trial court of the dangers inherent in doing so.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Grady v. Commonwealth