Commonwealth v. Pavao’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Correa (1997), Commonwealth v. Grant (1998)
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 Boykin v. Alabama · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Porter v. States · Frederick Wiseman v. Massachusetts · United States v. Rodriguez
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.
“except to note that the defendant was well represented by counsel, that the defendant consulted frequently with defense counsel during trial, that the result of the trial was "fairly clear" given the weight of the evidence and defense counsel's concession of guilt in closing arguments [regarding several of the charges], and that "it seems incredible to suggest that [the defendant's] waiver was not knowing and voluntary, which, of course, is the purpose of the colloquy."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boulden v. State“To allow harmless error analysis of this sort is inconsistent with the right to a jury trial altogether. Surely if a defendant had asked for a jury trial and it had been denied him, a conviction could not be saved by this analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boulden v. State“[e]xactly the kind of doubts our rule is intended to avoid would arise, were we to rely on what a defendant says after a conviction to establish what he knew and intended at the earlier moment when he waived his rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boulden v. State
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.