State v. Balfour’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably 13 Cal. 4th 952 - In Re Sade C. (1996), Wildman v. Johnson (2001)
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 22 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.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(4) The appellant’s brief shall be divided into two sections, Section A and Section B. Section A of the appellant’s brief shall contain a statement of the case, including a statement of facts, sufficient to apprise the court of the jurisdictional basis for the appeal. Section A, under those circumstances, shall contain no assignments of error or argument. [[Image here]] (6) If the client seeks to raise one or more issues with the court that counsel considers to be frivolous, the brief shall contain a presentation of the issue or issues in a Section B. Section B of the appellant’s brief, under those circumstances, shall raise any claim of error requested by the client. (7) Counsel shall provide the client with appropriate legal advice on these claims of error, but shall present to the court in the brief the issue that the client seeks to raise in the manner that the client seeks to raise it. In so doing, counsel’s role is limited to attempt to see to it that the client states the issues and arguments in proper appellate brief form and the brief is timely filed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arabie · State v. Bousum“a brief referring to anything in the record that might arguably support the appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(i) ... Counsel should endeavor to persuade the client to abandon a wholly frivolous appeal or to eliminate contentions lacking in substance. (ii) If the client chooses to proceed with an appeal against the advice of counsel, counsel should present the case, so long as such advocacy does not involve deception of the court. When counsel cannot continue without misleading the court, counsel may request permission to withdraw.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clark
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.