161 So. 2d 879 - French v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1988
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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Coker v. State · 108 So. 2d 494 - Shepherd v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The right to the appointment of counsel under the circumstances herein considered is not a sham or hollow right amounting to a superficial gesture in order to lend color of compliance with constitutional guarantees. The right is a real and substantial one to be accorded in such manner as to fully meet the purpose, spirit and intent of those provisions of organic law which guarantee due process."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““As a general rule, the granting or denial of a motion for continuance is discretionary and may be reviewed only by appeal from the final judgment. Such an order, like so many other rulings made during the course of a criminal prosecution, may not properly be asserted as a ground for collateral attack upon the judgment instituted pursuant to Criminal Procedure Rule 1. Where, however, the order amounts in essence to the deprivation of counsel under circumstances where the right to counsel is guaranteed as a part of due process by the organic law of our state and nation, the ruling may constitute a proper ground for relief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is generally held that "The duty imposed on the courts to assign counsel to defend one accused of a crime who is himself unable to employ counsel was not intended to be a mere formality. It means more than the mere appointment of counsel. Such duty is not discharged by an assignment at such a time or under such circumstances as to preclude the giving of effective aid in the preparation and trial of the case. It is a general rule that a reasonable time for the preparation of a defendant's case must be allowed between the time of assignment of counsel by the court and thedate of trial.”
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.