Beckley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1992
3 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 · Faretta v. California · Illinois v. Allen · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Von Moltke v. Gillies
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“made aware of the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation, so that the record will establish that he knows what he is doing and his choice is made with eyes open.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] defendant who represents himself may not thereafter disaffirm his deliberate trial decisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to be heard by himself and counsel, or either . . .”
1 later decision 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.