Lopez v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.3d 1120 · 1999
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
October 2001
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Lindh v. Murphy
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“You have only a couple of remedies as to make a strong pitch when you argue when you come up for sentencing before Judge Haas. Or to make a real pitch to say that I want to withdraw my plea and go to trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lopez v. Thompson“be made aware of the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lopez v. Thompson“[E]ven when a lawyer represents himself, he has a fool for a client”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lopez v. Thompson
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.