State v. McCombs’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably State v. Sugar (1980), State v. Crisafi (1992)
46 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 · Swain v. State of Alabama · Illinois v. Allen · Mayberry v. Pennsylvania · New York Stock Exchange v. Legate
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot have it both ways that is, he cannot refuse to represent himself but at the same time reject the services of assigned counsel. Our trial courts will continue to be controlled by trial judges, not by defendants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“self-representation was the last thing [the instant defendant] wanted and assistance of counsel was the first.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“now unmistakably clear [is] that defendant need not show he was prejudiced by the absence of counsel,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.