Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 2014
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Faretta v. California · Kentucky v. Indiana · United States v. DeCoster · Herko v. United 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of a defendant to participate in his own defense is an alternative one. That is, one has a right either to be represented by counsel or to represent himself, to conduct his own defense.... It is entirely a matter of grace for a defendant to represent himself and have counsel, and such privilege should be granted by the trial court only in exceptional circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McCary
How this case has been treated — in progress
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