Imani v. Pollard’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.3d 939 · 2016
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Faretta v. California · Illinois v. Allen · McKaskle v. Wiggins · Godinez v. Moran · Harrington v. Richter
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial court may deny a defendant's request to act pro se when the defendant is mentally competent to stand trial but suffers from severe mental illness to the point where he is not competent to conduct trial proceedings by himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“stretch Edwards " by applying the gray-area standard to Imani, who "had a high school education, was literate, and was able to understand the trial judge's warnings about what he was getting himself into,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“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.”
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.