State v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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

1. “[W]hen dissatisfaction is expressed, the court must make some reasonable, non-suggestive efforts to determine the nature of the defendant’s complaints and to apprise itself of the facts necessary to determine whether the defendant’s relationship with his or her appointed attorney has deteriorated to the point that sound discretion requires substitution or even to such an extent that his or her Sixth Amendment right to counsel would be violated but for substitution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Waterfield

2. “Under both the United States and Utah Constitutions, a criminal defendant has the right to assistance of counsel,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Smith

3. “Concomitant with that right is the criminal defendant's guaranteed right to elect to present his own defense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Smith