State v. Gethers’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Leecan (1986), State v. Robinson (1993)
121 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1654
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Brady v. United States · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Carnley v. Cochran
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant shall be permitted to waive the right to counsel and shall be permitted to represent himself or herself at any stage of the proceedings, either prior to or following the appointment of counsel. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A defendant is not entitled to demand a reassignment of counsel simply on the basis of a breakdown in communication which he himself induced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was adopted in order to implement the right of a defendant in a criminal case to act as his own attorney in defending himself. . . .”
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.