Carvey v. LeFevre’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 19 · 1979
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably United States v. Barlow (1982), Roe v. United States (1986)
22 federal appellate · 10 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Kirby v. Illinois · Brewer v. Williams · Patterson 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Without knowledge of a pending indictment, the accused cannot appreciate the gravity of his legal position or the urgency of his need for a lawyer’s assistance____ [If] he know[s] that he [is] not merely suspected of the crime but actually under indictment, [he] might well [be] more circumspect in his replies and more insistent on his immediate right to counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Neither coercion nor emotional unrest . need be shown in order to find that the accused lacked a full understanding of his legal posture and therefore could not have made a rational, intelligent waiver of his right to counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“When an indictment has come down, riveting tightly the critical right to counsel, a waiver of that right requires the clearest and most explicit explanation and understanding of what is being given up.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.