428 So. 2d 444 - State v. Seiss’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
336 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 337 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Grant (2002), State Ex Rel. Graffagnino v. King (1983)
336 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 Chambers v. Maroney · 416 So. 2d 528 - State v. Ratcliff · State v. Leggett · 345 So. 2d 1179 - State v. Hegwood · State v. Lee
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 337 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Assignment of counsel shall not deprive the defendant of the right to engage other counsel at any stage of the proceedings in substitution of counsel assigned by the court. The court may assign other counsel in substitution of counsel previously assigned or specially assigned to assist the defendant at the arraignment.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown · State v. Marshall“[t]here is no constitutional right to make a new choice of counsel on the very date the trial is to begin, with the attendant necessity of a continuance and its disrupting implications.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“not errorless counsel, and not counsel judged ineffective by hindsight, but counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance.”
8 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.