Luna v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
772 F.2d 448 · 1985
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably United States v. Edouard (2007), State v. Munoz (1995)
18 federal appellate · 11 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · United States v. Goodwin · In re Disbarment of Levin · Sigler v. Losieau
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no due process violation when a defendant is openly presented with the 'unpleasant alternatives of forgoing trial or facing charges on which he was plainly subject to prosecution.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where no request is made for an interpreter and the record shows no need for one in that the defendant has no difficulty in communicating, a trial court does not abuse its discretion by failing to appoint an interpreter.”
2 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.