In Re Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1998
2 federal appellate · 9 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 · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Price v. Johnston · Ross v. Moffitt
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Petitioner has no constitutional right of self-representation on appeal. [¶] `An appeal from a judgment of conviction is not a matter of absolute right, independently of constitutional or statutory provisions allowing such appeal.... [¶] ... [¶] California has made the right to appeal a statutory creature whose scope and authority is only as specifically delineated. [Citations.] [¶] ... [¶] Once appellate review is established it must be kept free from any procedures which violate due process or equal protection of the law. [Citations.] ... [¶] ... [¶] Under California law a criminal defendant has neither a constitutional nor statutory right to argue his case on appeal, or to be present during such proceedings. [Citations.] [¶] Moreover, under some circumstances, counsel may be appointed on appeal over the defendant's objections. [Citations.] Once appointed, the attorney has the exclusive right to appear and control court proceedings as long as fundamental rights are not denied; neither the party himself nor another attorney can be recognized in the conduct or disposition of the case. [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is whether a defendant in a state criminal trial has a constitutional right to proceed without counsel when he voluntarily and intelligently elects to do so. Stated another way, the question is whether a State may constitutionally hale a person into its criminal courts and there force a lawyer upon him, even when he insists that he wants to conduct his own defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... his rights and guarantees under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and the California Constitution were violated by his being denied the right to represent himself on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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