United States v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
35 F.3d 310 · 1994
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Prewitt v. United States (1996), United States of America v. Trevor Bjorkman (2001)
20 federal appellate ·
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 Liegl v. Webb · Dennis v. United States · Guinan v. United States · United States v. Morrison · United States v. Hillsberg
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether a denial of a motion for substitution of counsel constitutes an abuse of discretion, this court [considers] several factors, including the timeliness of the motion, the adequacy of the court’s inquiry into the defendant’s motion, and whether the conflict between the defendant and his counsel was so great that it resulted in a total lack of communication preventing an adequate defense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a continuance merely would have been used to come up with a more detailed challenge to the credibility of various witnesses, each of which the court heard and observed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the defendant's] efforts here appear to the court to be an effort to derail the sentencing that was fast approaching at the time he sent this letter.”
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.