McDowell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
270 federal appellate · 33 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 509 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2019 · most notably Godinez v. Moran (1993), Saffle v. Parks (1990)
270 federal appellate · 33 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 17 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
Relies on Faretta v. California · Benjamin v. United States · Chemical Manufacturers Ass'n v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Welty
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 509 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a split in the circuits over the extent of inquiry necessary before allowing an accused to waive his right to counsel,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“model inquiry ... set forth in 1 Bench Book for United States District Judges 1.02-2 (3d ed. 1986)[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.