State v. Gethers’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Lamme (1990), 48 Cal. 3d 1142 - People v. Hamilton (1989)
123 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 · Gideon v. Wainwright · 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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Has been clearly advised of the right to the assistance of counsel, including the right to the assignment of counsel when so entitled;”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The clear and unequivocal request formulation has been said to have developed primarily as a standard designed to minimize abuses by criminal defendants who might be inclined to manipulate the system. See generally comment, `The Right to Appear Pro Se: Developments in the Law,' 59 Neb. L.Rev. 135, 141-43 (1980). If an unequivocal request were not required, convicted criminals would be given a ready tool with which to upset adverse verdicts after trials at which they had been represented by counsel.... United States ex rel. Maldonado v. Denno, 348 F.2d 12, 16 (2d Cir.1965), cert. denied sub nom. DiBlasi v. McMann, 384 U.S. 1007 , 86 S.Ct. 1950 , 16 L.Ed.2d 1020 (1966) ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.