Commonwealth v. Palmer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that when defendant partially waives right to counsel \[i]t is sufficient if the court instructs the accused on those aspects of the trial for which he seeks to represent himself\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

28 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. P.L.S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-02-02· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Frank
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-06· cited 82×
• State v. Gethers
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-09-03· cited 82×
• Banks v. Horn
  Third Circuit· 2001-10-31· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Payson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-08· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-04· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-06· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-30· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Lott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-12· cited 37×
• State v. Layton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-07-23· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Catanch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-18· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Clever
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-03· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Lloyd
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-01-11· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Hobson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-05· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Neal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-08-23· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-08· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Pickering
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-28· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-16· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Wax
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-16· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Dooley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-08-03· cited 8×

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Commonwealth v. Hubbard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 854×
• Commonwealth v. Riggins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-08-17· cited 471×
• Commonwealth v. Farquharson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 388×
• Commonwealth v. Harper
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-05· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Cliff
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-01-24· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Africa
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Benson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-25· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-06-29· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Whitfield
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-07-08· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-09-21· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Vernille
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-27· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Craft
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-26· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Andrews
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-24· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Gwaltney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-06-02· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Candia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-20· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Kraft
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-29· cited 19×
• Move Organization v. City of Philadelphia
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1981-02-02· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Morrison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-19· cited 17×