United States v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
605 F.2d 1321 · 1979
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Brown v. Wainwright (1982), United States of America v. Clinton Bernard Frazier-El (2000)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Faretta v. California · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · 19 Cal. 3d 121 - People v. Windham · United States v. Dougherty · United States ex rel. Maldonado v. Denno
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before meaningful trial proceedings have commenced,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Muhammad v. Com. · Muhammad v. Com.“[W]e think it is reasonable, and entirely compatible with the defendant's constitutional rights, to require that the right of self-representation be asserted at some time `before meaningful trial proceedings have commenced,' and that thereafter its exercise rests within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court should, of course, vigilantly protect a defendant's constitutional rights, but it was never intended that any of these rights be used as a ploy to frustrate the orderly procedures of a court in the administration of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. State · State v. Samuel
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.