Lumbert v. Finley’s Empirical Analysis
735 F.2d 239 · 1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2000 · most notably Martinez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District (2000), Chatman-Bey v. Thornburgh (1988)
9 federal appellate · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1654
Relies on Faretta v. California · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Douglas v. People of State of California · Ross v. Moffitt
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e find it conceptually difficult to imply in the `equal protection right' to counsel on direct appeal a correlative right of self-representation on direct appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o argue that the provision of the transcript might have resulted in a successful appeal of [the plaintiff’s] murder conviction, a new trial, and possible acquittal, and thereby would have indirectly affected the fact of his confinement, is to speculate in a Palsgrafian fashion that provides too tenuous a basis for the determination whether an action properly is characterized as an exclusive habeas corpus action.” Lumbert v. Finley, 735 F.2d at 242 ; see also Georgevich v. Strauss, 772 F.2d 1078 , 1087 (3d Cir.1985) (en banc) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hanson v. Heckel
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.