Singer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
484 federal appellate · 41 district · 670 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,531 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Faretta v. California (1975), Duncan v. State of Louisiana (1968)
484 federal appellate · 41 district · 670 state decisions — followed in 45 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Berger v. United States · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Patton v. United States · Thompson v. State of Utah
Cited together with Patton v. United States · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Johnson v. Zerbst · Sheppard v. Maxwell
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 1,531 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he ability to waive a constitutional right does not ordinarily carry with it the right to insist upon the opposite of that right.”
90 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Cases required to be tried by jury shall be so tried unless the defendant waives a jury trial in writing with the approval of the court and the consent of the government.””
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We need not determine in this case whether there might be some circumstances where a defendant’s reasons for wanting to be tried by a judge alone are so compelling that the Government’s insistence on trial by jury would result in the denial to a defendant of an impartial trial.”
27 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.