Lujan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.2d 1053 · 1970
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 584 F. Supp. 1406 - Korematsu v. United States (1984), Cline v. United States (1972)
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 494
Relies on United State v. Morgan · Murphy v. Houma Well Service · New York Stock Exchange v. Legate · Huth v. Southern Pacific Co. · United States v. Valentino
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We note particularly that the facts here are disputed, the record is inconclusive, and the government has not even attempted to refute Lujan’s allegation that he [did not knowingly waive his right to counsel]. Such matters require an evidentiary hearing for resolution. * * * Hearings to consider attacks on the constitutionality of a criminal conviction are not to be nonchalantly denied. On the contrary, courts have a solemn duty to ferret the allegations for symptoms of constitutional infirmities. The petition and documents before us convince us that Lujan’s claims are neither fatuous nor groundless. It is only where the files and records show that a petitioner is entitled to no relief that a hearing can be denied. * * * This case does not fit that mold. Neither procedural complexities nor prison paranoia may forfend evidentiary hearings when such hallowed relief is sought.””
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.