Commonwealth v. Scionti’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Pointer v. Texas · Pate v. Robinson · Illinois v. Allen · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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.
“sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer * with a reasonable degree of rational understanding and ... a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If, in the alternative, she had ordered the defendant to be brought into court to receive an express warning, the safety of the defendant as well as court staff would have been at risk”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.