United States v. Bird’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 989 · 1980
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2010
16 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
Relies on Faretta v. California · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Economic Research Analysts, Inc. v. O'Connell · Addington v. Texas · United States v. Dujanovic
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant should be made aware of the disadvantages of self-representation. The defendant should be warned that (a) self representation is almost always unwise and the defendant may conduct a defense to his or her own detriment; (b) the defendant will have to abide by the same rules as lawyers and will get no assistance from the judge; (c) the People will be represented by experienced counsel who will have the advantage of skill, training and ability; and (d) the defendant will have no special library privileges nor a staff of investigators at his or her beck and call.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“he knows what he is doing and his choice is made with eyes open.”
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.