State v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 state decisions

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The mandate and judgment of the Supreme Court in this case, which is part of the files of the case, affirming the finding of the Circuit Court in denying the defendant his motion to vacate the judgment and sentence clearly shows that Ray E. Warren did not want an attorney. “He had dismissed attorneys O’Hanlon, Simpson and Rankin, all appointed by the Court. Attorney Grassmuch was then appointed by the Court to defend him on the day of trial. The mandate of the Supreme Court set out part of the transcript which shows that Grassmuch asked the defendant in the Judge’s chambers: 'Are you willing to stand trial along the lines I talked to you about here in private’, but the defendant did not answer. The attorney was not appointed minutes before the trial, but had spoken privately to his client and if Warren had a defense he should have divulged it to his attorney at that time and furthermore Grassmuch had, before the commencement of the trial, filed a motion to strike from the amended information the prior conviction of the defendant, and the motion was sustained. “O’Hanlon, the first attorney appointed by the Court to defend Warren, in this same case, had filed a similar motion which he later dismissed., In that motion he set out in part: ‘Comes now the defendant, Ray Eugene Warren, in person and by his at torney, and having seen and heard .the amended information herein.’ This motion is part of the record in the case. The petitioner is mistaken when he states in his application”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Warren