United States v. Pollani’s Empirical Analysis
146 F.3d 269 · 1998
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2024
8 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Cronic · Soberon v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] pro se litigant may not abuse his right [to counsel] by strategically requesting special appearances by counsel or by repeatedly altering his position on counsel to achieve delay or obstruct the orderly administration of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the defendant was only deprived of exercising the right to counsel in a particular way which would unjustifiably delay the trial process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district judge did not state- and there is no reason to think -that [retained counsel]'s appearance would impede the orderly administration of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.