State v. Guitard’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Scruggs (2006), State v. Martinez (2010)
26 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 State v. Montgomery · In re Hector L. · State v. Hamilton · State v. Gethers · State v. Leroy
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[A] defendant does not have a state or federal constitutional right to standby counsel.... Once a defendant has properly embarked on the path of self-representation, his constitutional right to counsel ceases.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Powers
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.