Barham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2024
7 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Nicholas v. United States · Penn v. Parke State Bank · Carballo v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In criminal cases, the right to retain counsel of choice becomes a question of fundamental fairness, the denial of which may rise to a level of constitutional violation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.... The right to privately retain counsel of choice derives from a defendant's right to determine the type of defense he wishes to present. Lawyers are not fungible, and often the most important decision a defendant makes in shaping his defense is the selection of an attorney. In situations where a defendant is able to retain counsel privately”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hanna v. State · Johnson 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.