585 So. 2d 540 - State v. Strain’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 720 So. 2d 724 - State v. Lambert (1998), 823 So. 2d 877 - State v. Bridgewater (2002)
133 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determining the defendant's understanding of his waiver of counsel in a guilty plea to an uncomplicated misdemeanor requires less judicial inquiry than determining his understanding of his waiver of counsel for a felony trial”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage“that states the defendant understood his right to counsel, that he wished to waive that right, and wished to enter the guilty plea without the assistance of counsel. This form is dated October 3, 1991, and is signed only by the defendant and the assistant district attorney. As in the first predicate offense, there is nothing in this record to indicate that the trial judge made a determination on the record that the defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his right to counsel. Nevertheless, as pointed out by the Louisiana Supreme Court in Strain ,”
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.