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← 295 N.C. 636 - State v. Silhan

State v. Silhan’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 1979
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Carnley v. Cochran · State v. Blackmon · State v. Butler

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “that a defendant's waiver of counsel must be `specifically made.' In other words, there must be some positive indication by the defendant that he does not wish to have an attorney present during the questioning.”
    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.