Jordan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Johnson v. State (1988), Geeslin v. State (1980)
27 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Argersinger v. Hamlin · Carnley v. Cochran · Webb 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n accused may waive his right to counsel if such waiver is made voluntarily with knowledge of the consequences thereof. To assure protection of so fundamental a right, courts indulge every reasonable presumption against waiver of counsel. To this extent, this court has held that the record must clearly show that the accused voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently waived his right to counsel in order to assert his right to represent himself.... We remain convinced that appellant’s rights were violated in both respects....”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. State · Lisney 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.