30 Cal. 4th 213 - People v. Dent’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 32 Cal. 4th 73 - People v. Valdez (2004), 39 Cal. 4th 913 - People v. Stanley (2006)
37 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 Faretta v. California · Brewer v. Williams · McKaskle v. Wiggins · Godinez v. Moran · 19 Cal. 3d 121 - People v. Windham
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court's response was not only legally erroneous but also unequivocal, and foreclosed any realistic possibility defendant would perceive self-representation as an available option.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“may well have convinced defendant the self-representation option was simply unavailable, and making the request again would be futile.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`I am not going to let him proceed pro. per.... Not in a death penalty murder trial.'”
2 later decisions 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.