Hatcher v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * it appears that appellant signed a form of waiver in open court in the presence of his counsel, who signed the waiver with him. It is true that the record does not disclose direct communication between the court and the appellant with respect to the waiver. Since the waiver of a constitutional right is not to be taken lightly, such direct communication is desirable so there can be no question of the defendant’s ‘intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right.’ [Cases cited.] Because there is in this case no suggestion that appellanfs act of waiver was not intentional or without actual knozvledge of his right to a jury trial, we are constrained to affirm the judgment of the District Court. Adams v. United States ex rel. McCann, 317 U.S. 269, 281 , 63 S.Ct. 236 , 87 L.Ed. 268 (1942).” [Emphasis added.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Little