Reshard v. Britt’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 1573 · 1987
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2006
12 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1654 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Faretta v. California · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the right to proceed pro se under 28 U.S.C. § 1654[ ] is a fundamental statutory right that is afforded the highest degree of protection. It is a right which is deeply rooted in our constitutional heritage, and although statutory in origin, '[i]ts constitutional aura is underscored by the proposal the very next day of the Sixth Amendment,' to the U.S. Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Section 1654 provides in full as follows: In all courts of the United States the parties may plead and conduct their own cases personally or by counsel as by the rules of such courts, respectively, are permitted to manage and conduct causes therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reshard v. Britt“conclusively determine the disputed question, resolve an important issue completely separate from the merits of the action, and be effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.