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← 242 Ga. App. 727 - Raines v. State

242 Ga. App. 727 - Raines v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
October 2017
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Anthony · 220 Ga. App. 506 - Prater v. State · Hasty v. State · 218 Ga. App. 598 - Flanagan v. State · 222 Ga. App. 461 - Hawkins 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “reflects Raines' inexperience in legal matters”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “is valid only if it is made with an understanding of (1) the nature of the charges, (2) any statutory lesser included offenses, (3) the range of allowable punishments for the charges, (4) possible defenses to the charges, (5) circumstances in mitigation thereof, and (6) all other facts essential to a broad understanding of the matter.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “need only reflect that the accused was made aware of the dangers of self-representation and nevertheless made a knowing and intelligent waiver.”
    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.