Valdes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2013
21 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 Faretta v. California · Illinois v. Allen · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Jones v. Howard
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.
“[t]rial judges must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances of each case where a defendant disrupts the proceedings”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[did] not mean Valdes' participation was minor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the State must show a heightened level of premeditation establishing that the defendant had a careful plan or prearranged design to kill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lawrence 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.