State v. Samuel’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Faretta v. California · Martinez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District · United States v. West · State v. Pagan · United States of America v. Clinton Bernard Frazier-El
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No, ma'am.... I mean, my mama, basically paid Mr. Grant a good bit amount [sic] of money. The reason why he couldn't represent me is because ... his paralegal is related, you know, in some manner. So he had decided to just go over the steps with me day by day. I go through the trial, I got back to him. I talk to him, he'll tell me things or he won't-he's not going to be in the courtroom, present.... I know he's not representing me, but he is coaching me on-.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Samuel“You're bright enough, educated enough.... You don't have a problem that I'm aware of that I * can use, in all candor, to keep you from representing yourself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Samuel
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.