Whitehead v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2012
24 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 Strickland v. Washington · McCleskey v. Kemp · Brendale v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation · Granito v. United States · Belisle v. Anzivino
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[A]n individual does not have a right to hybrid representation. . . . Rather, the decision to permit a defendant to proceed as co-counsel rests in the sound discretion of the trial court.' Cross v. United States , 893 F.2d 1287 , 1291-92 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 849 , 111 S.Ct. 138 , 112 L.Ed.2d 105 (1990).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[c]ourts may properly refuse permission to amend ... where there is no showing of diligence or that the facts were unknown to the applicant prior to his application.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] criminal *Page 1011 defendant alleging an equal protection violation in sentencing has the burden of proving 'the existence of purposeful discrimination.'”
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.