Hooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2026
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Barker v. Wingo · Faretta v. California · Brewer v. Williams · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“make findings regarding as to whether the defendant's waiver of the right to counsel is knowing, intelligent, and voluntary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A conviction obtained after an invalid waiver of the right to counsel—that is, one that fails to demonstrate that the defendant knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily waived the right—is per se invalid and is not subject to harmless-error analysis.”
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.