644 So. 2d 996 - Guzman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 868 So. 2d 498 - Guzman v. State (2003), 785 So. 2d 1209 - LaMarca v. State (2001)
2 federal appellate · 40 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 387 So. 2d 344 - Foster v. State · Babb v. Edwards · Nixon v. Siegel
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"once a public defender moves to withdraw from the representation of a client based on a conflict due to adverse or hostile interests between the two clients, under section 27.53(3), Florida Statutes (1991), a trial court must grant separation representation."”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hope v. State · Banks v. State“should be extremely cautious when denying defendants the opportunity to present testimony or evidence on their behalf, especially where a defendant is on trial for his or her life”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We can think of few instances where a conflict is more prejudicial than when one client is being called to testify against another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.