State v. Boyer’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
204 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 206 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Jacobs (2000), State v. Reyes (2002)
204 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Anders v. California · Faretta v. California · Jones v. Barnes · Evitts v. Lucey · Gagnon v. Scarpelli
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 206 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The parties assume that defendants have a right to appear pro se on appeal, if that is their desire. Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 , ... We have operated under the same assumption. Many parties appear on appeal in both criminal and civil cases pro se.”
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.