State v. Drobel’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2018
14 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Drope v. Missouri · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Jackson v. Indiana
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““whether defendant has studied law; defendant’s experience at self-representation; the charges and possible penalties faced; familiarity with, and the expectation of adherence to, procedural and evidentiary rules; a warning that the trial court will not direct or advise the defense; a recommendation against self-representation; and whether the choice of self-representation is voluntary.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tenney · State v. McDonald“'Tntelligent' in this context means 'only that the defendant has been provided with adequate information on which to make his or her self representation choice. Because such a choice is seldom, if ever, a wise one,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Frampton colloquy alone cannot form the basis for granting a self-representation request when other information available to the trial court suggests that the request may not be knowingly and intelligently made”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Smith
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.