In re Breen’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
February 1977
most recently cited
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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Relies on Oyler v. Boles
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"From a document filed by petitioner in this Court in December 1966, and the opinion in In Re Breen's Petition, 237 Fed.Sup. 575, it is shown that petitioner stated that he was convicted and sentenced to life as an habitual offender, after entering a plea of not guilty and asserting his right to defend himself, the document filed in this Court stating as his reasons: "`Lawyers refuse to challenge the practice because it makes their work easier and because to do so would put the court in disrepute,' and `Because Lawyers refuse to challenge the practice; I elected to try to defend myself at my trial also because I was without funds to hire a lawyer even if he would.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Breen
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