4 Haw. App. 614 - State v. Dickson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably State v. Sinagoga (1996), 8 Haw. App. 330 - State v. Hirano (1990)
39 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 · Carnley v. Cochran · Von Moltke v. Gillies · White v. Morgan · Martin Theatres of Texas, Inc. v. Bullock
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Finally, the trial court should inform the defendant: of his right to counsel, whether private or appointed; that self-representation is detrimental to himself; that he will be required to follow all technical rules and substantive procedural, and evidentiary law; that the prosecution will be represented by able counsel; that a disruption of the trial could lead to vacation of the right to self-representation; and that if voluntary self-representation occurs, the defendant may not afterward claim that he had inadequate representation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trial court should first examine the particular facts and circumstances relating to the defendant, such as the defendant's age, education, mental capacity, background and experience, and his conduct at the time of the alleged waiver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. AKINA“[t]he trial court is initially charged with the function of assuring that the defendant's waiver of counsel is made knowingly and intelligently and that the record is complete so as to reflect that waiver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. AKINA
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.