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← 77 MASSAPPCT 232 - Commonwealth v. Clemens

Commonwealth v. Clemens’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Morris v. Slappy · Roemer v. United States

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

  1. “The acts leading to waiver by conduct need not be violent, but they must be highly disruptive of orderly or safe proceedings.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “most common problem accompanying a request for a change of counsel is the need for a continuance of the trial”
    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.