Wilkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Wilson v. State (1991), State v. Hunter (1992)
4 federal appellate · 44 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Faretta v. California · Hill v. Lockhart · Edwards v. Arizona · Booth v. Maryland
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the protracted proceedings hereinbefore discussed, Judge McFarland perhaps more than any person was favorably positioned to understand defendant and evaluate the evidence. He had ample opportunity to observe the defendant and learn the innermost reason for his decision to waive counsel. This observation and oral examination of the defendant could not be ignored and was necessarily taken into account when assessing the competency of a defendant to waive counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... The motion shall be filed within ninety days after the movant is delivered to the custody of the department of corrections. Failure to file a motion within the time provided by this Rule 24.035 shall constitute a complete waiver of any right to proceed under this Rule 24.035.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gromowsky v. State“[a] finding of competence to proceed to trial is tantamount to a finding that one is competent to enter a plea of guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. State
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.