399 Pa. Super. 413 - Commonwealth v. Rishel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An accused is guaranteed the right to counsel when an attempt is made by the government to deliberately elicit information after adversarial proceedings are commenced. In Pennsylvania, a defendant’s right to sixth amendment protection attaches at the time of arrest. Since [the defendant] had already been arrested, his sixth amendment right to counsel applied during the videotaping at the police station. However, it must be determined whether the videotaping was a critical stage of adversarial proceeding against [the defendant]. Attempting to elicit information is a critical stage at which counsel must be present.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Tilburg