Breazeale v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Robinson v. State (1987), Van Hoang v. State (1993)
93 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 Berry v. State · Williams v. State · Ex Parte Felton · Harvey v. State · Boyd v. State
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be made in person by the defendant in writing in open court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Meek v. State · Hall v. State“The defendant, in person and in writing, in open court, having waived his right of trial by jury (such waiver being with the consent and approval of the court and now entered of record in the minutes of the court, and such waiver being with the consent and approval of the District Attorney in writing and filed in the papers of this cause), waived arraignment and formal reading of the indictment, and in open court, pleaded guilty to the charge contained in the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Metters 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.