Munkus v. Furlong’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.3d 980 · 1999
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2020
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Faretta v. California · Soberon v. United States · McKaskle v. Wiggins · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant’s waiver of his right to counsel is valid only if it is knowing and intelligent; the waiver is knowing and intelligent only if the trial court informs the defendant on the record of the nature of the charges against him, the possible punishments and defenses, and the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“While the right to counsel is in force until waived, the right of self-representation does not attach until asserted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Daniels v. Lee“[C]ourts consistently have discussed the right to self-representation in terms of invoking or asserting it”
1 later decision 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.