Minor v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
375 F.2d 170 · 1967
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Sewell v. United States (1969), Aron v. United States (1967)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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. § 2312 · 28 U.S.C. § 1732 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Berger v. United States
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The Constitution does not force an unwanted attorney upon a defendant. Adams v. United States ex rel. McCann, 317 U.S. 269, 279 , 63 S.Ct. 236 , 87 L.Ed. 268 ; United States v. Washington, 3 Cir., 341 F.2d 277, 285 . The accused may before trial elect to conduct his own defense. Price v. Johnston, 334 U.S. 266, 285 , 68 S.Ct. 1049 , 92 L.Ed. 1356 ; United States ex rel. Maldonado v. Denno, 2 Cir., 348 F.2d 12, 15 ; Johnson v. United States, 8 Cir., 318 F.2d 855, 856 ; Butler v. United States, 8 Cir., 317 F.2d 249, 258 . However, as aptly stated by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: ‘Once it is found * * * that such an accused has properly waived his right to counsel, the effects flowing from that decision must be accepted by him, together with the benefits which he presumably sought to obtain therefrom.’ Smith v. United States, 5 Cir., 216 F.2d 724, 727 . Thus, when accused elects to waive his constitutionally guaranteed right of counsel, he does so at his own risk and must accept the consequences of his action. United States v. Redfield, D.C.Nev., 197 F.Supp. 559, 572 , affirmed on the basis of the trial court’s opinion, 9 Cir., 295 F.2d 249 .” (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Possession of property recently stolen, if not satisfactorily explained, is ordinarily a circumstance from which the jury may reasonably draw the inference and find in the light of surrounding circumstances shown by the evidence that the person in possession knew the property had been stolen.””
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.