Mitchell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Faretta v. California · Commonwealth v. Benham · Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. v. Thompson · United States v. Stearns · Timmons 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial court acts erroneously where it affirmatively misrepresents a defendant's choice of counsel as being between 'only two alternatives: either represent himself or accept appointed counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is error for the trial court to misstate that a form of hybrid representation is unavailable in response to an inquiry by a defendant or his counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trial court failed to correct its misstatement of the law, thus Appellant proceeded to trial under the belief that hybrid counsel was not an option.”
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.