State v. Vrabel’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. McKelton (Slip Opinion) (2016), State v. Roberts (2006)
89 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 · Faretta v. California · State v. Bradley · New York v. Ferber · McKaskle v. Wiggins
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because of the defendant's present mental condition, the defendant is incapable of understanding the nature and objective of the proceedings against the defendant or of assisting in the defendant's defense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“if a trial court denies the right of self-representation when properly invoked, the denial is per se reversible error.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“appellant repeatedly changed his mind as to whether he wanted to represent himself or have counsel represent him prior to trial. The trial judge went to great lengths to accommodate appellant's continual changes of mind, and it is clear that the judge avoided acting hastily to ensure a correct and just decision.”
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.