State v. Irvin’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Magley v. State (1975), Works v. State (1977)
76 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 Tate v. Short · Turner v. State · Cooper v. State · Robbins v. State · Thomas 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is a presumption that defense counsel is 90m-petent, and this presumption can be overcome only if it can be shown that what the attorney did, or did not do, made the proceedings a mockery and shocking to the conscience of the Court. Robbins v. State (1971), 257 Ind. 273 , 274 N.E.2d 255 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The choice of an attorney to represent a pauper defendant is wholly within the sound discretion of the trial court and can only be reviewed for abuse. State ex rel. Brown v. Thompson (1948), 226 Ind. 392 , 81 N.E.2d 533 ; Schuble v. Youngblood (1947), 225 Ind. 169 , 73 N.E.2d 478 . The trial court need not appoint such counsel as the defendant may choose. Burton v. State (1964), 246 Ind. 197, 200 , 202 N.E.2d 165 , 204 N.E.2d 218 ; McDowell v. State (1947), 225 Ind. 495 , 76 N.E.2d 249 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The services of an attorney appointed by the court may not be forced upon a pauper defendant but if the defendant refuses to be represented by the appointed counsel, he must find some method to employ his own counsel or proceed in propria persona.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Works v. State
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.