United States v. Kliti’s Empirical Analysis
156 F.3d 150 · 1998
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably United States v. Schwarz (2002), United States v. Blau (1998)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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. § 513 · 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on Cuyler v. Sullivan · Holloway v. Arkansas · Wheat v. United States · Wood v. Georgia · Bergstrom v. Dalkon Shield Trust
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court that learns of a possible conflict must investigate the facts and details of the attorney's interests to determine whether the attorney in fact suffers from an actual conflict, a potential conflict, or no genuine conflict at all.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i) advise the defendant of the dangers arising from the particular conflict; (ii) determine through questions that are likely to be answered in narrative form whether the defendant understands those risks and freely chooses to run them; and (iii) give the defendant time to digest and contemplate the risks after encouraging him or her to seek advice from independent counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[A]n attorney has a potential conflict of interest if 'the interests of the defendant may place the attorney under inconsistent duties at some time in the future.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.