Commonwealth v. Staton’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Faretta v. California · Douglas v. People of State of California · Martinez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District · Commonwealth v. Colson · Commonwealth v. Ellis
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“question of entitlement to self-representation on appeal” presents a novel question in Pennsylvania. In Staton , we were asked to address that question in conjunction with a motion to withdraw filed by the appellant’s counsel. We found that there was no need to answer the question in order to decide the motion because”
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.