108 Wash. 2d 515 - State v. Bebb’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Stenson (1997), 114 Wash. 2d 613 - State v. Swan (1990)
57 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 Faretta v. California · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Bounds v. Smith · 105 Wash. 2d 692 - State v. Kwan Fai Mak
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the right to proceed pro se exists to promote the defendant's personal autonomy, rather than to promote the convenience or efficacy of the trial (and often operates to the defendant's detriment) courts generally find that relinquishment of the right to proceed pro se is a far easier matter than waiver of the right to counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[t]he mere possibility that an item of undisclosed evidence might have helped the defense or might have affected the outcome of the trial . . . does not establish”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`to be available to represent the accused in the event that termination of the defendant's self-representation is necessary.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pugh · State v. Pugh
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.