34 Cal. 3d 936 - People v. Joseph’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 48 Cal. 3d 1194 - People v. Bloom (1989), 20 Cal. 4th 701 - People v. Welch (1999)
132 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1654
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Faretta v. California · 2 Cal. 3d 118 - People v. Marsden · Southern Railway Co. v. Jackson · Irving III v. Mississippi
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a motion to proceed pro se is timely interposed, a trial court must permit a defendant to represent himself upon ascertaining that he has voluntarily and intelligently elected to do so, irrespective of how unwise such a choice might appear to be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`The court feels, because of the nature of the charge, you are not able to represent yourself adequately.... [¶] ... [¶] Your request to go pro per, because this is a capital case, is denied.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`It is not ... essential that defendant be competent to serve as counsel in a criminal proceeding [citation];”
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.