Vanisi v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Weber v. State (2005), Ybarra v. McDaniel (2011)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 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 · McKaskle v. Wiggins · Godinez v. Moran · Albert Bribiesca v. George Galaza, Warden · United States v. Flewitt
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] court may ... deny a request for self-representation if the request is untimely, equivocal, or made solely for purposes of delay or if the defendant is disruptive.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“without need for a continuance, the request should be deemed timely.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Guerrina v. State · Watson v. State“be made aware of the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation, so that the record will establish that he knows what he is doing and his choice is made with eyes wide open.”
2 later decisions 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.