Weygandt v. Look’s Empirical Analysis
718 F.2d 952 · 1983
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Duckett v. Godinez (1995), Wilborn v. Escalderon (1986)
72 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Catlin v. United States · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · Mercantile National Bank at Dallas v. C H Langdeau Republic National Bank of Dallas
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the likelihood of success on the merits [and] the ability of the petitioner to articulate his claims pro se in light of the complexity of the legal issues involved.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he district court or magistrate may appoint counsel [under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3006A] at any stage of the case if the interests of justice require.”
9 later decisions 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.