State v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. McDaniel & Owens (1980), 172 W. Va. 656 - State v. Sheppard (1983)
35 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 Faretta v. California · State v. Rueckert · State v. Ralls · State v. Watkins · State v. Ames
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he critical question does not pertain to the extent of defendant’s legal knowledge, but whether he has properly been made aware of the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation — -so that the record will establish that he understands what he is doing and has made his choice with his eyes open.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Williams
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.