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Briscoe v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
2
states following
March 2017
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2017

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions

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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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Von Moltke v. Gillies · McKaskle v. Wiggins

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) that the defendant will have to conduct his defense in accordance with the rules of evidence and criminal procedure, rules with which he may not be familiar; (2) that the defendant may be hampered in presenting his best defense by his lack of knowledge of the law; (3) that the effectiveness of his defense may well be diminished by his dual role as attorney and accused. (4) the nature of the charges, (5) the statutory offenses included within them, (6) the range of allowable punishments thereunder, (7) possible defenses to the charges and circumstances in mitigation thereof, and (8) all other facts essential to a broad understanding of the whole matter. 87”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Holland v. State
  2. “knows what he is doing and his choice is made with eyes open.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Boyer v. State
  3. “penetrating and comprehensive examination”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Boyer v. State

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.