553 So. 2d 652 - Wheeler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2015
8 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 · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · United States v. Weninger · 476 So. 2d 1236 - Dixon v. State · 441 So. 2d 1045 - Robinson v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[T]he right to assistance of counsel does not imply the absolute right to counsel of one's choice. A defendant's right to obtain counsel of his choice must be balanced against the need for the efficient and effective administration of criminal justice.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`"A valid waiver of counsel need not be express. However, courts are hesitant to validate an implied waiver. Nevertheless, a court may infer a knowing and intelligent waiver if the defendant fails to retain counsel after repeated urging by the court or discharges counsel in midtrial after explicit warnings."' Wheeler v. State , 553 So.2d 652 , 653 (Ala.Cr.App. 1989), quoting Project: Criminal Procedure , 76 Geo.L.J. 921, 928-30 (1988) (emphasis omitted)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ardis v. State
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.