387 So. 2d 338 - State v. Tait’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably William Duane Elledge v. Richard L. Dugger (1987), 846 So. 2d 472 - Logan v. State (2003)
4 federal appellate · 51 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 · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Bullock v. United States · Rowell v. United States
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the accused is represented by counsel, affording him the privilege of addressing the court or the jury in person is a matter for the sound discretion of the court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n all criminal prosecutions the accused ... shall have the right ... to be heard in person, by counsel, or both ... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“embody a right of one accused of crime to representation both by counsel and by himself.”
2 later decisions 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.