United States v. Solon’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.3d 1206 · 2010
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2252A (§ 101 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on United States v. Olano · Arizona v. Fulminante · Johnson v. United States · Rose v. Clark · Marshall v. Jerrico, Inc.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a total deprivation of the right to counsel; the lack of an impartial trial judge; the unlawful exclusion of grand jurors of defendant's race; a deprivation of the right to self-representation at trial; the denial of the right to a public trial; and an erroneous reasonable-doubt jury instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Underwood v. Royal“A defining feature of structural error is that the resulting unfairness or prejudice is necessarily unquantifiable and indeterminate, such that any inquiry into its effect on the outcome of the case would be purely speculative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Underwood v. Royal“'complete abdication of judicial control over the process'”
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.