James Wilson v. Hans Walker’s Empirical Analysis
204 F.3d 33 · 2000
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Cassano (2002), Commonwealth v. Bryant (2004)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Faretta v. California · Godinez v. Moran · Brown v. Wainwright · United States ex rel. Maldonado v. Denno · United States v. Arlt
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o avoid waiver of a previously invoked right to self-representation, a defendant need not continually renew his request to represent himself even after it is conclusively denied by the trial court. After a clear denial of the request, a defendant need not make fruitless motions or [forgo] cooperation with defense counsel in order to preserve the issue on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once asserted ... the right to self-representation may be waived through conduct indicating that one is vacillating on the issue or has abandoned one's request altogether.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. at 622. COURT OF APPEALS OF NEVADA 8 10) 1947B ADP Other jurisdictions have employed similar reasoning. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a lower court's ruling (that the defendant lacked the education to represent himself) was categorical, and expressly relied on the advanced stage of proceedings and the defendant's lack of education—obstacles that were not going to be removed before trial.”
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.