State v. Piorkowski’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Fernandez (2000), State v. Drakeford (2002)
33 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Communicating With Adverse Party. During the course of representation of a client, a lawyer shall not communicate or cause another to communicate on the subject of the representation with a party the lawyer knows to be represented by another lawyer in that matter unless the lawyer has the prior consent of the lawyer representing such other party or is authorized by law to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McCarthy“scrupulously protects the right of an individual's access to counsel, we always have recognized that the right to counsel is a personal right”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Purcell“No person shall be compelled to give evidence against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Purcell
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.