United States v. Solina’s Empirical Analysis
733 F.2d 1208 · 1984
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. West (1989), United States v. Fountain (1985)
37 federal appellate · 9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Wisconsin Western District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Morris v. Slappy · United States v. Silverstein · United States v. Ramirez · Loux v. United States · United States v. Bruscino
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A criminal defendant has a constitutional right to defend himself; and with rights come responsibilities. If at the last minute he gets cold feet and wants a lawyer to defend him he runs the risk that the judge will hold him to his original decision in order to avoid the disruption of the court’s schedule that a continuance granted on the very day that trial is scheduled to begin is bound to cause.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may not arbitrarily deny a criminal defendant the right to retain his own counsel ... it [was] not required to allow a last-minute change in counsel to disrupt its schedule.”
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.