State v. Christian’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2024
8 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 · Lewis v. United States · Gomez v. United States · 19 Cal. 3d 121 - People v. Windham · United States ex rel. Maldonado v. Denno
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 reaching this conclusion, the court has answered the wrong question. The relevant question to be answered is whether, having granted Christian the right to represent himself, the trial court abused its discretion when it rescinded the order granting that right without finding that Christian had deliberately `engaged in serious and obstructionist misconduct.' See Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 834 [f]n. 46 [ 95 S.Ct. 2525 , 45 L.Ed.2d 562 ] (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.