State v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2017
11 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Gideon v. Wainwright · Argersinger v. Hamlin · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Shadwick v. City of Tampa
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The function of the court is not to defend the accused, or to represent him, but to decide fairly and impartially. An accused needs counsel to defend him ... because the government employs lawyers to prosecute him .... But the judge is not one of the accused’s adversaries and is not there either to defend or to prosecute him. So the fact that the accused needs a lawyer to defend him does not mean that he needs to be tried before a lawyer judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis
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.