Speights v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 2 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Supreme Court has never held that waivers of counsel at any stage of the proceedings other than trial require such a give-and-take between the accused and someone trying to educate him about counsel’s benefits — and in To-var the Court held that the Constitution does not require warnings along these lines when the accused wants to plead guilty without legal assistance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Abear, Michael G.

2. “waiver of the right to the assistance of counsel at trial, the stage of a criminal prosecution most difficult for a layperson to navigate, may require an oral inquiry to ensure that the defendant chooses with knowledge of his entitlements and his eyes open to the dangers of self-representation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brooks v. McCaughtry