United States v. Trapnell’s Empirical Analysis
512 F.2d 10 · 1975
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Gordon v. Leeke (1978), United States v. Kenny (1981)
29 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Boesche v. Udall · Dennis v. California · United States v. Lucchese · United States v. Dujanovic
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dispassionately, fairly, and impartially.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that a defendant represents himself does not alter the judicial role nor does it impose any new obligation on the trial judge. The defendant under those circumstances must assume the responsibility for his inability to elicit testimony. As stated by [the Ninth Circuit] in United States v. Dujanovic, supra, 486 F.2d at 188 , ‘. . . one of the penalties of the appellant’s self-representation is that he is bound by his own acts and conduct and held to his record.’ [United States v. Trapnell, 512 F.2d 10, 12 (9th Cir. 1975) (per curiam).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hsu v. United States“(O)ne of the penalties of . . . self-representation is that (the appellant) is bound by his own acts and conduct and held to his record.”
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.