Guest v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
603 F.3d 15 · 2010
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1654
Relies on Winkelman Ex Rel. Winkelman v. Parma City School District · Hamilton v. Beretta U.S.A. Corp. · Eiseman v. State · D'Amico v. Christie · Jones v. Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the administrator is the only party affected by the disposition of the suit, he is, in fact,' appearing solely on his own behalf. This being so, the dangers that accompany lay lawyering are outweighed by the right to self-representation____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the law contains so many esoteric pitfalls for an untrained advocate ... that the risk of inadvertent waiver or abandonment of an issue is too high for us to allow a pro se litigant to represent another person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] person who has not been admitted to the practice of law may not represent anybody other than himself.”
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.