United States v. Peppers’s Empirical Analysis
302 F.3d 120 · 2002
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Vampire Nation (2006), United States v. McKee (2007)
26 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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. § 3231 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Von Moltke v. Gillies · McKaskle v. Wiggins · Miller v. Fenton
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [The defendant] must “assert his desire to proceed pro se clearly and unequivocally”; (2) the court must “inquire thoroughly to satisfy itself that” the request is knowing and intelligent; and (3) the court must “assure itself that the defendant is competent to stand trial.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A judge can make certain that an accused's professed waiver of counsel is understandingly and wisely made only from a penetrating and comprehensive examination of all the circumstances under which such a plea is rendered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trial court [bears] the weighty responsibility of conducting a sufficiently penetrating inquiry to satisfy itself that the defendant's waiver of counsel is knowing and understanding as well as voluntary.”
2 later decisions 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.