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← 2002 WIAPP 100 - State v. Coleman

State v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
April 2017
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · 113 Wis. 2d 61 - Sweet v. Berge · 117 Wis. 2d 701 - State v. Woods · 211 Wis. 2d 194 - State v. Klessig · 199 Wis. 2d 721 - State v. Cummings

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) [provide] explicit warnings that, if the defendant persists in [specific conduct], the court will find that the right to counsel has been forfeited ...; (2) [engage in] a colloquy indicating that the defendant has been made aware of the difficulties and dangers inherent in self-representation; (3) [make] a clear ruling when the court deems the right to counsel to have been forfeited; and (4) [make] factual findings to support the court's ruling....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[F]orfeiture cannot occur simply because the effect of the defendant's conduct is to frustrate the orderly and efficient progression of the case. The defendant must also have the purpose of causing that effect.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “A defendant may, by his or her conduct, forfeit the right to counsel.”
    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.