580 So. 2d 1006 - State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2018
23 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Argersinger v. Hamlin · State Ex Rel. Graffagnino v. King · State v. Richardson · State v. Duncan
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] defendant's failure to secure his own counsel and refusal to accept court appointed counsel may result in an implied waiver of his right to counsel.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... I want to caution you very strongly that if this is your request then the next time this matter is set for trial you're going to go to trial, either with your attorney that you hire or represent yourself. You can't just keep coming back and saying that you don't want an attorney or you can't afford and [sic] attorney or you couldn't find an attorney or whatever....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.