State v. Day’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
201 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably State v. Kelly (2001), State v. Schiappa (1999)
201 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 Chapman v. State of California · Boykin v. Alabama · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright
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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a [criminal] defendant who has been found competent to stand trial as a matter of state law ... also is competent to waive the right to counsel. Application of a stricter competency test in the latter analysis than was used in the former would place an unconstitutional burden in the exercise of the defendant's federal constitutional right of self-representation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(3) Comprehends the nature of the charges and proceedings, the range of permissible punishments, and any additional facts essential to a broad understanding of the case; and”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[S]uch a waiver triggers the constitutional right of an accused to represent himself. . . . The multifactor analysis of § [44-3], therefore, is designed to assist the court in answering two fundamental questions: first, whether a criminal defendant is minimally competent to make the decision to waive counsel, and second, whether the defendant actually made that decision in a knowing, voluntary and intelligent fashion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.