Hunter v. Delo’s Empirical Analysis
62 F.3d 271 · 1995
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018
18 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Liteky et al United States · McCleskey v. Zant · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · New Jersey v. New York
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When faced with a motion to appoint substitute counsel, the district court must balance several factors, including “the need to ensure effective legal representation, the need to thwart abusive delay tactics, and the reality that a person accused of crime is often genuinely unhappy with an appointed counsel who is nonetheless doing a good job.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a conflict of interest, an irreconcilable conflict, or a complete breakdown in communication between the attorney and the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a mandatory right to qualified legal counsel and related services '[i]n any [federal] post conviction proceeding.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Gibson
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.