Jones v. Wharton’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Hance v. Kemp (1988), 202 Ga. App. 356 - Kirkland v. State (1991)
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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Brewer v. Williams · Argersinger v. Hamlin · Carnley v. Cochran
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.
“[w]hen an accused is placed on trial for any offense, whether felony or misdemeanor, for which he faces imprisonment, the constitutional guarantee of right to counsel attaches. Argersinger v. Hamlin, 407 U. S. 25 (92 SC 2006, 32 LE2d 530) (1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Merely finding that a request for counsel was not made is insufficient to establish waiver. Where the assistance of counsel is a constitutional requisite, the right to be furnished counsel does not depend on a request.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Saunders v. State“When the record is silent, waiver is never presumed and the burden is on the state to present evidence of a valid 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.