Blanton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011 · most notably Faretta v. California (1975), State Ex Rel. Casey v. Murray (1952)
25 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 State Ex Rel. Blanton v. Smith
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[O]f course a defendant may represent himself if he so desires. In such situation he must accept the burdens and hazards incident to his position.' . . . One of the 'burdens and hazards' appellant took on by rejecting the offer to have counsel appointed for him was that of doing without the . . . services an appointed attorney could have provided for him. We will not hear him now complain of these burdens and hazards he could have easily avoided.”
3 later decisions 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.