Sproule v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2017
9 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 · 596 So. 2d 957 - Traylor v. State · 719 So. 2d 873 - Amendment to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.111(d)(2)-(3) · 408 So. 2d 635 - Enrique v. State · 535 So. 2d 698 - Lamb 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant’s waiver of the right to counsel applies only to the stage of the proceedings during which the waiver is made. “Where the right to counsel has been properly waived, the State may proceed with the stage in issue; but the waiver applies only to the present stage and must be renewed at each subsequent crucial stage where the defendant is unrepresented.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Monte v. State“[s]ince there was no change in that critical stage, rule 3.111(d)(5) does not come into play.”
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.