State v. Gonzalez’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Bunkley v. Commissioner of Correction (1992), State v. Robinson (1993)
116 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 Pate v. Robinson · Illinois v. Allen · Drope v. Missouri · Davis v. Alaska · Kahn v. Grant
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a defendant voices a seemingly substantial complaint about counsel....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Competence to stand trial is a legal question which must ultimately be determined by the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The extent of an inquiry into a complaint concerning defense counsel lies within the discretion of the trial court.... Moreover, the defendant's right to be represented by counsel does not grant a defendant an unlimited opportunity to obtain alternate counsel on the eve of trial ... and may not be used to achieve delay in the absence of exceptional circumstances.... The appellate scrutiny of the trial court's inquiry into complaints concerning adequacy of counsel must be tempered by the timing of such complaints.”
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.