State v. Cruz’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably State v. Cator (2001), Goodrum v. Commissioner of Correction (2001)
30 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Arizona v. Fulminante · Holloway v. Arkansas · Hamilton v. Alabama
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conflict of interest also arises if trial counsel simultaneously represents the defendant and another individual associated with the incident and that representation inhibits counsel's ability to represent the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Moreover, one of the principal safeguards of this right is the rule . . . that a trial court must explore the possibility of conflict when it knows or reasonably should know of a conflict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where the attorney adduces evidence or advances arguments on behalf of one defendant that are damaging to the interests of the other defendant.”
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.