Hobson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2021
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Williams v. State · 209 Ga. App. 859 - Jefferson v. State · 209 Ga. App. 802 - Staples v. State · Bennett 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court was authorized to conclude that [Lewis] was attempting to use the discharge... of... counsel as a dilatory tactic, which was the functional equivalent of a knowing and voluntary waiver of.. . counsel. In such instances, the trial court may [deny a continuance and] proceed to trial with the defendant representing himself.”
2 later decisions 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.