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Dowell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
3
states following
September 2016
most recently cited

32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Jones v. State (2003), Howard v. State (1997)

32 state decisions

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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 · Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · People v. Lopez · Fitzpatrick v. Wainwright · United States v. Allen

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[The trial court should inquire into the educational background of the defendant, the defendant's familiarity with legal procedures and rules of evidence, and additionally, into the defendant's mental capacity if there is any question as to the defendant's mental state.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jones v. State · Poynter v. State
  2. “The right to counsel can only be relinquished by a knowing, voluntary, and intelligent waiver of the right.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Sedberry v. State · Martin v. State
  3. “1. Whether the defendant made his request prior to the closing argument; 2. Whether it was the first time the defendant stated that he wanted to change from self representation to representation by an attorney; 3. Whether the defendant's performance prior to this stage of the trial had been less than effective. 4. Whether the defendant had standby counsel who had been present throughout the trial and who was prepared to assume representation without delay.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Howard v. State · 697 So. 2d 415 - Howard 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.