Wiggins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
2
states following
March 2023
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Faretta v. California · Carnley v. Cochran · McKaskle v. Wiggins · Clarke v. Zant
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a defendant makes a pre-trial, unequivocal assertion of the right to self-representation, the request must be followed by a hearing to ensure that the defendant knowingly and intelligently waives the "traditional benefits associated with the right to counsel" and understands the "disadvantages of self-representation so that the record will establish that he knows what he is doing and his choice is made with eyes open."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Both the federal and state constitutions guarantee a criminal defendant ... the right to counsel[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f the assertion of the right to proceed without the benefit of counsel is equivocal, there is no reversible error in requiring the defendant to proceed with counsel.”
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.