McMahon P-7814 v. Fulcomer’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 934 · 1987
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably United States v. Moya-Gomez (1988), United States v. Morrison (1991)
47 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Chapman v. State of California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Edwards v. Arizona
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen an accused manages his own defense, he relinquishes, as a purely factual matter, many of the traditional benefits associated with the right to counsel. For this reason, in order to represent himself, the accused must ‘knowingly and intelligently’ forego those relinquished benefits. Although a defendant need not himself have the skill and experience of a lawyer in order competently and intelligently to choose self representation, he should be made aware of the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation, so that the record will establish that ‘he knows what he is doing and his choice is made with eyes open.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'the district court must engage in at least some inquiry as to the reasons for the defendant's dissatisfaction with his existing attorney.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of the nature of the charges, the statutory offenses included within them, [and] the range of allowable punishments thereunder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.