Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Commonwealth v. Allen (1999), Commonwealth v. Anthony (1984)
26 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 Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Myrick · Commonwealth v. Rice · Commonwealth v. Morin · Commonwealth v. Smith
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our Rules of Criminal Procedure require a trial judge to ascertain whether a defendant’s waiver of the right to trial by jury ‘is a knowing and intelligent waiver, and such colloquy shall appear on the record.’ Pa.R.Crim. Proc. 1101. For the waiver to be ‘knowing and intelligent,’ the defendant must know ‘the essential ingredients of a jury trial’— ‘the requirements that the jury be chosen from members of the community (a jury of one’s peers), that the verdict be unanimous, and that the accused be allowed to participate in the selection of the jury panel.’ Commonwealth v. Williams, 454 Pa. 368, 373 , 312 A.2d 597, 600 (1973).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the written form signed by [defendant], his counsel and the court states that [defendant] was indeed fully aware of these requirements.”
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.