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1979

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
4
states following
July 2012
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Fields v. Calderon (1997), People v. Barrett (2012)

2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

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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 Boykin v. Alabama · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · 1 Cal. 3d 122 - In Re Tahl

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “absent an on-the-record showing that she waived that right or was incapable of doing so by reason of either physical or mental incapacity, deprived her of her fundamental constitutional right to due process of law”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re MT · 154 Cal. App. 4th 1090 - In Re Conservatorship of John L.
  2. “The fact that constitutional rights are most frequently vindicated in criminal cases should not blind us to the truth that certain fundamental constitutional rights are guaranteed to every person, not solely to those who are accused of criminal activity. Due process is one such fundamental right.... The right of a defendant’s personal presence at trial is a condition of due process to the extent that a fair and just hearing would be thwarted by the absence of the accused.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ryfeul v. Ryfeul

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.