United States v. Dolan’s Empirical Analysis
570 F.2d 1177 · 1978
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 11 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Wheat v. United States (1988), United States v. Pungitore (1990)
56 federal appellate · 11 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Glasser v. United States · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Brady 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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a trial court finds an actual conflict of interest which impairs the ability of a criminal defendant's chosen counsel to conform with the ABA Code of Professional Responsibility, the court should not be required to tolerate an inadequate representation of a defendant. Such representation not only constitutes a breach of professional ethics and invites disrespect for the integrity of the court, but it is also detrimental to the independent interest of the trial judge to be free from future attacks over the adequacy of the waiver or the fairness of the proceedings in his own court and the subtle problems implicating the defendant's comprehension of the waiver.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Court should seek to elicit a narrative response from each defendant that he [or she] has been advised of his [or her] right to effective representation, that he [or she] understands the details of his [or her] attorney’s possible conflict of interest and the potential perils of such a conflict, that he [or she] has discussed the matter with his [or her] attorney or if he [or she] wishes with outside counsel, and that he [or she] voluntarily waives his [or her] Sixth Amendment protections. 38”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The potential for conflict of interest in representing multiple defendants is so grave that ordinarily a lawyer should decline to act for more than one of several co-defendants except in unusual situations when, after careful investigation, it is clear that no conflict is likely to develop and when the several defendants give an informed consent to such multiple representation.”
2 later decisions 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.