40 Ark. App. 92 - Ofochebe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2014
9 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 Anders v. California · Batson v. Kentucky · Penson v. Ohio
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The procedure for the filing of a no-merit brief is governed by Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967) and Rule 11(h) [now Rule 4-3(j)] of the Rules of the Supreme Court. The test is not whether counsel thinks the trial court committed no reversible error, but rather whether the points to be raised on appeal would be “wholly frivolous.” Anders, 386 U.S. at 744 . Under Anders, the appellate court is also required to make a determination “after a full examination of all the proceedings,” whether the case is wholly frivolous. Similarly, Rule 11 (h) permits the filing of a no-merit brief only when “the appeal is wholly without merit.””
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.