German v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 172 W. Va. 656 - State v. Sheppard (1983), Lock v. State (1980)
65 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 Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Illinois v. Allen · Ungar v. Sarafite · Eisenstadt v. Baker
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dangers and pitfalls of self-representation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Leonard v. State · Moreno v. State““It is clearly established that a defendant charged with having committed a felony be allowed representation by counsel. Gideon v. Wainwright, (1963) 372 U.S. 335 , 83 S.Ct. 792 , 9 L.Ed.2d 799 . Nevertheless, a defendant may not through a deliberate process of discharging retained or assigned counsel whenever his case is called for trial disrupt sound judicial administration by such delaying tactics.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. State“[a] trial judge may terminate self-representation by a defendant who deliberately engages in serious or obstructionist misconduct.”
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.