Treece v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Hunt v. State (1990), Grandison v. State (1995)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 106 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Boykin v. Alabama · Faretta v. California · North Carolina v. Alford · Dusky v. United States · Illinois v. Allen
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in appropriate circumstances,” of bifurcating trial of the issues of guilt/innocence and criminal responsibility when the latter is at issue. The bifurcation issue was referred to the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure for “a prompt report.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`the defendant ordinarily has the ultimate decision when the issue at hand involves a choice that will inevitably have important personal consequences for [the defendant] and when the choice is one a competent defendant is capable of making.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““The Court recognized the importance of counsel to fair trial; it affirmed the right of every defendant, rich or poor, to the assistance of counsel; but it held that a defendant who intelligently and voluntarily chooses to represent himself cannot be compelled to be represented by counsel. Justice Stewart explained for the Court: ‘The right to defend is personal. The defendant, and not his lawyer or the State, will bear the personal consequences of a conviction. It is tlie defendant, therefore, who must be free personally to decide whether in his particular case counsel is to his advantage. And although he may conduct his own defense ultimately to his own detriment, his choice must be honored out of “that respect for the individual which is the lifeblood of die law.” ’ ” Treece, 313 Md. at 673 -74 (quoting Faretta, 422 U.S. at 834 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Carter
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.