State v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Bacon (1994), State v. Rinck (1981)
52 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · McMann v. Richardson
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is not always necessary to prove the identification before introducing evidence of a conversation . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“abhorred since colonial days and [are] banned by both the Federal and State Constitutions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gordon · State v. Garner““Neither the United States Supreme Court, nor this Court, has fashioned a rule to guide us in determining whether an accused was denied his Constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel due to counsel’s negligence, in-comptency [sic], conflicting loyalties or other similar reasons. However, there are numerous decisions from other jurisdictions and other federal courts which bear upon decision of the question here presented. A review of these decisions indicates the general rule to be that the incompetency (or one of its many synonyms) of counsel for the defendant in a criminal prosecution is not a Constitutional denial of his right to effective counsel unless the attorney’s representation is so lacking that the trial has become a farce and a mockery of justice.” (Citations omitted.)”
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.