401 Pa. Super. 400 - Jones v. Rudenstein’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Peters Creek Sanitary Authority v. Welch (1996), 2004 Pa. Super. 314 - Hoover v. Davila (2004)
34 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 Faretta v. California · 380 Pa. Super. 397 - Ibn-Sadiika v. Riester · 398 Pa. Super. 400 - Valley Peat & Humus v. Sunnylands, Inc. · 373 Pa. Super. 377 - Nivens Ex Rel. Nivens v. Chestnut Hill Hospital · 400 Pa. Super. 274 - Walt Medical v. Electro-Nucleonics
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant apparently labors under the false assumption that by proceeding pro se he is absolved of all responsibility to comply with procedural rules, and that the appellee and/or the court had some affirmative duty to walk him through the procedural requirements, or to ignore the procedural requirements in order to reach the merits of his claim. Such is not the case. The United States Supreme Court has explained: “The right of self-representation is not a license to abuse the dignity of the courtroom. Neither is it a license not to comply with relevant rules of procedural and substantive law,” Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 , 834 n. 46, 95 S.Ct. 2525 , 2541 n. 46, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975). [emphasis in original].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.