Saunders v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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.

1. ““I have advised Mr. Saunders, as I have always advised persons who have come before me and asked or insisted upon their rights to represent themselves, that the course of action they have taken is dangerous, and is ill-advised, and that they should not do so. I have used, in admonishing Mr. Saunders, the example which I always use in those instances, and that is, that the Constitution probably gives oneself the right to do brain surgery upon yourself, if you elected to do so, but that it is not sound medical practice to attempt to perform brain surgery on oneself.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Ganther v. State

2. “erred by proceeding in [defendant's] absence when standby counsel was available to defend”); Saunders v. State, 721 S.W.2d 359, 363 (Tex.App.1985) (error "for the trial court to remove [defendant] without expressly terminating his right of self-representation based on his disruptive behavior and directing stand-by counsel to assume the management of [defendant’s] defense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. People v. BRANTE