6 Cal. 4th 684 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably People v. Hines (1997), 74 Cal. Rptr. 2d 121 - People v. Barnett (1998)
129 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · 2 Cal. 3d 118 - People v. Marsden · People v. Ibarra · 33 Cal. 3d 572 - People v. Fosselman · 9 Cal. 3d 753 - People v. Serrato
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a failure to replace the appointed attorney would substantially impair the [defendant's] right to assistance of counsel. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is the very nature of a Marsden motion, at whatever stage it is made, that the trial court must determine whether counsel has been providing competent representation. Whenever the motion is made, the inquiry is forward-looking in the sense that counsel would be substituted in order to provide effective assistance in the future. But the decision must always be based on what has happened in the past. The further one is in the process, the more counsel has done in the past that can be challenged, but that is a difference of degree, not kind.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o the extent there was a credibility question between defendant and counsel at the hearing, the court was 'entitled to accept counsel's explanation.'”
2 later decisions 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.