State v. Coita’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2010
16 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 Patton v. United States · United States v. Martin · United States v. Garrett · United States v. Saadya · State v. Conn
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We may, of course, infer that the court did not object to trial by court, but the rule requiring court approval demands more than mere acquiescence.... Silent acquiescence to a waiver does not assure us that the court thought about the decisionnot only from the defendant's point of view, but from the prosecutor's perspective and in the interests of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MacHia“in view of the seriousness of the right to be protected, the cases require `strict compliance with the rule.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MacHia“the defendant personally indicated, understandingly, his desire to waive a trial by jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MacHia
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.