38 Cal. 3d 945 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably 46 Cal. 3d 833 - People v. Crandell (1988), 51 Cal. 3d 72 - People v. Stankewitz (1990)
48 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 · 2 Cal. 3d 118 - People v. Marsden · People v. Redmond · 22 Cal. 3d 749 - People v. Arbuckle · 8 Cal. 3d 287 - People v. Carr
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the decision to allow a substitution of attorney is within the discretion of the trial judge `unless there is a sufficient showing that the defendant's right to the assistance of counsel would be substantially impaired if his present request was denied.'”
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.