State v. Scales’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2023
16 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 Strickland v. Washington · Woodcock v. Chemical Bank · State v. Dunn · State v. Emmett · State v. Pierre
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Two or more felonies, misdemeanors, or both, may be charged in the same indictment or information if each offense is a separate count and if the offenses charged are: (a) based on the same conduct or are otherwise connected together in their commission; or (b) alleged to have been part of a common scheme or plan. [[Image here]] (4) (a) If the court finds a defendant or the prosecution is prejudiced by a joinder of offenses or defendants in an indictment or information or by a joinder for trial together, the court shall order an election of separate trials of separate counts, grant a severance of defendants, or provide other relief as justice requires.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mead · State v. Hildreth“[The cause of the breakdown-or who is to 'blame'-in an attorney-client relationship significantly affects whether the breakdown ... requires the court to substitute a defendant's court-appointed counsel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. S.K. v. State · State v. Graham“(al defendant must do more than show that he or she does not have a 'meaningful relationship' with his or her attorney,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. S.K. v. State · State v. Graham
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.