Bryant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2001
15 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 Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Ex Parte Briggs v. State · State v. Gallup
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There certainly is no question but what the responsibility for representing a defendant, including the making of numerous decisions through the proceedings, is lodged with defense counsel. Courts ought not interfere with defense counsel’s responsibility in this regard unless the facts of the situation clearly demonstrate that justice requires the interference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fitzpatrick
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.