73 Wash. 2d 92 - State v. Kolocotronis’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 115 Wash. 2d 609 - State v. Dennison (1990), Commonwealth v. Banks (1987)
1 federal appellate · 52 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Pate v. Robinson · Carnley v. Cochran · United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · Reynolds v. States
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even though a defendant demands his constitutional right to act as his own counsel, if the court determines that he does not have the requisite mental competency to intelligently waive the services of counsel nor adequate mental competency to act as his own counsel, then his right to a fair trial and his constitutional right to due process of law, is disregarded if the court permits him to so act in a criminal case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although petitioner received a hearing on the issue of his competence to stand trial, there appears to have been no hearing or inquiry into the issue of his competence to waive his constitutional right to the assistance of counsel and proceed, as he did, to conduct his own defense. ‘The constitutional right of an accused to be represented by counsel invokes, of itself, the protection of a trial court, ir^ which the accused — whose life or liberty is at stake — is without counsel. This protecting duty imposes the serious and weighty responsibility upon the trial judge of determining whether there is an intelligent and competent waiver by the accused.’ Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 US 458, 465 [ 58 S.Ct. 1019, 1023 , 82 L.Ed. 1461 ]; Carnley v. Cochran, 369 US 506 [ 82 S.Ct. 884 , 8 L.Ed.2d 70 ]. Id. at 150, 86 S.Ct. at 1320 (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to appear and defend in person, or by counsel....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Silva
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.