Commonwealth v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Commonwealth v. Logan (1988), Nara v. Frank (2007)
3 federal appellate · 46 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 Pate v. Robinson · Commonwealth v. Ragone · Commonwealth ex rel. Hilberry v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Bruno · Commonwealth v. Davis
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[T]he mental competence of an accused must be regarded as an absolute and basic condition of a fair trial.’ Commonwealth v. Bruno, 435 Pa. 200 , 205 n.1, 255 A.2d 519 , 522 n.1 (1969). ‘[T]he conviction of an accused person while he is legally incompetent violates due process ... and ... state procedures must be adequate to protect this right.’ Pate v. Robinson, 383 U.S. 375, 378 , 86 S.Ct. 836, 838 [ 15 L.Ed.2d 815 ] (1966); See Commonwealth v. Ragone, 317 Pa. 113 , 176 A. 454 (1935).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . this man is best seen at this time as continuing in a Schizophrenic Reaction of the Paranoid Type with inappropriate affect, delusional ideation and apparently hallucinatory phenomena of a religious nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . Mr. Marshall . . is at the present moment quite capable of defending himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.