Payne v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2016
11 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 Faretta v. California · Swain v. State of Alabama · Sheppard v. Maxwell · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Estelle v. Williams
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a defendant's behavior is sufficiently egregious, it will constitute forfeiture.”). 138 . Payne v. State, 367 A.2d 1010, 1017 (Del. 1976) (“Standards required of members of the Bar must be adhered to by defendants undertaking their own defense, and gross deviations from these standards constitute a waiver of the right of self representation.”). 139 . Supreme Court Rule 14(b)(vi)(A)(3) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cooke v. State
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.