Utt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Montgomery County v. Buckman (1994), Lodowski v. State (1986)
44 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Wade · Gault · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'essential fairness is lacking if an accused cannot put his case effectively in court,' and that the accused most likely will be unable to present an effective defense without the aid of counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the procedural right to the appointment of an attorney when a defendant is financially unable to retain private counsel”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Xenidis“the constitutional right to counsel in Maryland is older than that under the Constitution of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Xenidis
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.