Myers v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.3d 249 · 1993
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2012
5 federal appellate · 3 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Teague v. Lane · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether at trial or appeal, a defendant is not required to accept unwanted counsel.... [A] state criminal defendant has a constitutional right to present pro se briefs and motions on appeal. [Fn. omitted.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have no doubt that a defendant is not required to have counsel forced upon him or her. [Citations.] This rule is true not only at trial but on appeal. Recognition of this principle lends itself to the recognition that all defendants have a basic right to address the court with a pro se brief.”
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.