Stepp v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
524 F.2d 447 · 1975
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 1992
11 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the defendant is without counsel, he has a chance to get the sympathy of the jury, and the prosecutor has to tread softly to avoid giving the impression that he is taking undue advantage. If proceeding without counsel fails to help the accused before the jury, he finds that the appellant and post-conviction courts are more lenient with him. These things usually apply to a case which appears hopeless to the defendant, where there is very little a lawyer can do for him. This was such a case. There was no chance to win it on the facts, and there was nothing complicated about the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wallace v. State““Petitioner’s strategy was bound to give him a point for a post-conviction action, whichever way the trial judge ruled. If he had refused petitioner’s request to be allowed to conduct his own defense, petitioner would have claimed he was denied his right of self-representation. When he granted the request, he put petitioner in position to claim he lacked the capacity to make a knowing and intelligent choice between assistance of counsel and self-representation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wallace v. State“We may reverse free of the clearly erroneous rule where . . .the issue revolves around an ultimate fact as distinguished from subsidiary fact questions .... Although discrimination vei non is essentially a question of fact it is, at the same time, the ultimate issue for resolution in this case . . . . As such, a finding of discrimination is a finding of ultimate fact.”
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.