Ash v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2024
16 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 · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Chambers v. Maroney · Ungar v. Sarafite
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`* * * The right to counsel may not be used to play a "cat and mouse game with the court." ...'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hurst v. State · Irvin v. State“'protected from intrusion or trespass by some sort of material'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paugh v. State · Smith v. State“This situation was solely of defendant’s making and in no way can be laid upon the doorstep of * * * the trial judges [or the public defender], who exercised yeoman efforts to avoid this situation. It may be conceded without any argument that defendant was entitled to have competent counsel to assist him in his defense and that proper time for preparation is included within this right. It is, however, just as obvious that this is directed at the protection of the defendant and should not be or become a tool of a scheming or recalcitrant defendant to defeat the orderly processes and give to defendant the power to control the court’s calendar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mapp 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.