Calnan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Robbins v. State (2003), Springs v. State (2006)
71 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Wicks v. State · Fretwell v. State · Smith v. State · Moore v. State
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Should a defendant desire to waive his right to trial by jury, he must do so personally either in writing or in open court. A verbatim record of any proceedings at which a defendant waives his right to a trial by jury shall be made and preserved.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State · Hill v. State“A criminal defendant bears no burden of demanding a trial by jury under our constitution and law. This assures that the jury-trial right is not forfeited by inaction on the part of a defendant, and the contemporaneous objection rule is inapplicable to this circumstance. It is the trial court’s burden to ensure that if there is a waiver of the right to trial by jury, the defendant waives the right in accordance with the Arkansas Rules of Criminal Procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In every criminal trial where there is a right to trial by jury, the court should proceed as if a jury were to be used unless waiver takes place in accordance with the law. . . . The burden is on the trial court to assure that, if there is to be a waiver of the right to jury trial in a criminal case, it be done in accordance with the Rule by which we have implemented our Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reaser v. State
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.