Richardson v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
741 F.2d 753 · 1984
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably United States v. Gallop (1988), United States v. Fields (2007)
43 federal appellate · 15 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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. § 2111 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Faretta v. California · United States v. Hasting · Rideout v. United States · Estelle v. Smith
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The two types of error both implicate the fifth amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination. Furthermore, the Chapman error is the more egregious. There, the prosecution openly informs the jury of the defendant’s failure to testify and of the inferences of guilt which can be drawn therefrom. After reading Chapman and considering the two types of error involved, we can perceive no reason for distinguishing the two types insofar as the application of the harmless error doctrine is concerned.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the sixth amendment's right to counsel in criminal cases is absolute, an accused's right to a particular counsel is not.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant's refusal without good cause to proceed with able appointed counsel constitutes a voluntary waiver of that right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunn v. Johnson
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.