United States v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.2d 727 · 1971
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably United States v. Calabro (1972), United States v. Uptain (1976)
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2312
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Ungar v. Sarafite · Desist 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We think it clear that although a defendant able to retain counsel is entitled *Page 1064 to a reasonable time to secure counsel, he may not indefinitely postpone trial by continued applications for more time to seek representation. Whether additional time should be granted is within the sound discretion of the trial court. Further, where a defendant able to retain counsel has been advised by the court that he must retain counsel by a certain reasonable time, and where there is no showing why he has not retained counsel within that time, the court may treat his failure to provide for his own defense as a waiver of his right to counsel and require such defendant to proceed to trial without an attorney."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[Clark] ... ‘is incorrect in his assumption that Sixth Amendment rights have been newly-wrapped in a climate which affords a defendant the right to obtain a delay at his whim and caprice, or to obtain a reversal because he was unable to frustrate justice.’ ””
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.