State v. Afong’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2021
22 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 Burgett v. Texas · State v. Kamae · Thomas v. Union Pacific Railroad Company
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nless conceded by the defendant, the state is required to show, by evidence satisfactory to the court, the fact of the defendant's prior conviction, as well as the fact of his [or her] representation by counsel, or the waiver thereof, at the time of his [or her] prior conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Heggland“[u]nless conceded by the defendant, the state is required to show, by evidence satisfactory to the court, . . . , the fact of the defendant's prior conviction as well as the fact of his representation by counsel, or the waiver thereof, at the time of his prior conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sinagoga
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.