Ashe v. State of North Carolina’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 334 · 1978
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Green v. French (1998), 45 Cal. 3d 867 - People v. Robbins (1988)
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Irvin v. Dowd · Harris v. New York
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a defendant effectively communicates his desire to the trial judge to speak prior to the imposition of sentence, it is a denial of due process not to grant defendant's request.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the denial of [defendants'] right to speak may be found to be harmless error”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he most persuasive counsel may not be able to speak for a defendant as the defendant might, with halting eloquence, speak for himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. French
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.