State v. Crocker’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Torres (2005), 87 Conn. App. 568 - Santiago v. Commissioner of Correction (2005)
48 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 · Crawford v. Washington · Ohio v. Roberts · Doyle v. Ohio · State v. Golding
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A trial] court must pass on the issue whether or not to allow a waiver of a conflict of interest by a criminal defendant not with the wisdom of hindsight after the trial has taken place, but in the murkier pretrial context when relationships between the parties are seen through a glass, darkly.... [T]he [trial] court must be allowed substantial latitude in refusing waivers of conflicts of interest not only in those rare cases where an actual conflict may be demonstrated before trial, but in the more common cases where a potential for conflict exists which may or may not burgeon into an actual conflict as the trial progresses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There are many situations in which a ... court can determine that disqualification of counsel is necessary. The most typical is where the ... court finds a potential or actual conflict in the chosen attorney's representation of the accused, either in a multiple representation situation ... or because of the counsel's prior representation of a witness or co-defendant ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.