Dellenbach v. Hanks’s Empirical Analysis
76 F.3d 820 · 1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Benton v. Washington (1996), Forbes v. Edgar (1997)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 Sanders v. United States · Farmer v. Haas · Zarnes v. Rhodes · United States v. Donn · Daniels v. United States
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if, given the difficulty of the case in relation to the petitioner's competence to represent himself, the petitioner could not have obtained justice without the aid of a lawyer, could not have obtained a lawyer on his own, and would have had a reasonable chance of winning his case had he had a lawyer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McNary v. Norman“When a suit is dismissed because the complaint fails to state a claim (Rule 12(b)(6)), the dismissal is with prejudice, and the filing of a new suit to vindicate the claim will be met with the defense of res judicata.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Dismissal on the basis of a deficiency in the pleadings, rather than on the basis of an adjudication on the merits, is not a death knell.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shelton v. Gudmanson
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.