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← 611 Pa. 166 - Commonwealth v. Jette

Commonwealth v. Jette’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

63
cited by 63 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 60 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Anders v. California · Faretta v. California · Jones v. Barnes · Smith v. Murray

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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[I]n this context, there can be no claim of ineffective assistance, and counsel need not be called upon to articulate a reasonable basis for not including the foregone claims.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[c]onsistent with Rule [of Criminal Procedure] 576, decisional law from this Court has clarified Commonwealth policy regarding hybrid representation. No defendant has a right to hybrid representation, either at trial or on appeal.”
    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.