People v. Reason’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1997 · most notably Godinez v. Moran (1993), 19 Cal. 3d 121 - People v. Windham (1977)
4 federal appellate · 16 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the sole issue to be determined in a Faretta hearing is whether the defendant has the mental capacity to waive his constitutoinal right to counsel with a realization of the probable risks and consequences of his action. Whether or not a defendant is competent to act as his own lawyer is irrelevant. The fact that the defendant ‘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 the law [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.