State v. Wool’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Sprague (2003), State v. Hinchliffe (2009)
50 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 · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Solina v. United States · State v. Kasper · State v. Pizzuto
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A needy person is a person who at the time of need assessment is financially unable, without undue hardship, to provide for full payment of an attorney and all other necessary expenses of representation .... Factors to consider in the determination of whether a person is a needy person shall include current income, assets, current expenses and the number of dependents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A needy person... who is charged with having committed ... a serious crime, is entitled . . . [t]o be provided with the necessary services and facilities of representation. . .. The attorney, services and facilities, and court costs shall be provided at public expense to the extent that the person, at the time the court determines need, is unable to provide for their payment without undue hardship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A needy person who is being detained by a law enforcement officer without charge or judicial process, or who is charged with having committed or is being detained under a conviction of a serious crime, is entitled . . . [t]o be represented by an attorney to the same extent as a person having his own counsel;. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Armitage
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.