State v. Cowans’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 425 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 433 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. McKelton (Slip Opinion) (2016), State v. Roberts (2006)
2 federal appellate · 425 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 Whren v. United States · State v. Bradley · Griffin v. Wisconsin · State v. Fanning · State v. Waddy
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 433 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An indigent defendant has no right to have a particular attorney represent him and therefore must demonstrate `good cause' to warrant substitution of counsel.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“Deference on these issues should be given 'to those who see and hear what goes on in the courtroom.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'A trier of fact may not draw "[a]n inference based . . . entirely upon another inference, unsupported by any additional fact or another inference [* ] from other facts[.]”
5 later decisions 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.