Belton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 1994 · most notably State v. Youngblood (1968), 387 So. 2d 344 - Foster v. State (1980)
47 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 Glasser v. United States · Baker v. State · 214 So. 2d 52 - Dunbar v. State · Youngblood v. State · Belton v. State
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * If a defendant is indigent and such a request (for separate counsel) is made it should be granted unless it can be demonstrated to the trial judge that no prejudice will result or that no conflict will arise as an incident of the joint representation. Without such a request being made, failure to appoint separate counsel will not be held to constitute error unless it is demonstrated that prejudice results from such failure. Error does not occur because of joint counsel in the absence of a request for separate counsel or a showing of prejudice or conflict of interest."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Marshall v. State · Baker v. State“The interests and defenses of most co-defendants are conflicting. Evidence, strategy and defenses which will benefit one co-defendant usually are detrimental to the other. It is this conflict and inconsistency of position which makes it impossible for the same counsel to effectively represent two or more co-defendants simultaneously. ....”
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.