State v. Houtz’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2025
14 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 Drope v. Missouri · Thiel v. Southern Pacific Co. · State v. Okumura · 29 Utah 2d 254 - State v. Myers · State v. Aikers
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not free to make a voluntary decision about whether or not ... [to] attend the court proceedings,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this case, the State made no preliminary showing of voluntariness whatever, and the trial court erred by making inadequate inquiry into [the defendant's] ability to appear ... before deciding that he had waived his right to be present....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In eriminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to appear and defend in person and by counsel ... to have a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the county or district in which the offense is alleged to have been committed[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hubbard
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.