Robards v. Rees’s Empirical Analysis
789 F.2d 379 · 1986
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 48 Cal. 3d 843 - People v. Burton (1989), United States v. Noah (1997)
18 federal appellate · 21 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 Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Burgett v. Texas · Lewis v. United States · Baldasar v. Illinois
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would have impermissibly delayed the commencement of the trial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here, weeks before trial, Faretta clearly and unequivocally declared to the trial judge that he wanted to represent himself and did not want counsel. The record affirmatively shows that Faretta was literate, competent, and understanding, and that he was voluntarily exercising his informed free will.”
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.