83 N.C. App. 323 - State v. Callahan’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably State v. Larrimore (1995), 137 N.C. App. 583 - State v. Stanback (2000)
28 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 Burks v. United States · Tibbs v. Florida · Justices of Boston Municipal Court v. Lydon · Good Hope Chemical Corp. Creditors' Committee v. Koerver · United States v. Mandel
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant may be permitted at his election to proceed in the trial of his case without the assistance of counsel only after the trial judge makes thorough inquiry and is satisfied that the defendant . . . [comprehends the nature of the charges and proceedings and the range of permissible punishments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Frederick · In Re PDR“The record must affirmatively show that the inquiry was made and that the defendant, by his answers, was literate, competent, understood the consequences of his waiver, and voluntarily exercised his own free will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are clear and unambiguous. The inquiry is mandatory and must be made in every case in which a defendant elects to proceed without counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re PDR
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.