Degrate v. Godwin’s Empirical Analysis
84 F.3d 768 · 1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably McDonald v. Steward (1998), United States v. Taylor (1999)
5 federal appellate · 11 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bounds v. Smith · Crisp v. Rubin · Colonial Village, Inc. v. Spann · Robert C. Gilliard, Jr. v. Mississippi · United States v. Wilson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]aving rejected the assistance of court-appointed counsel, Degrate had no constitutional right to access a.law library in preparing the pro se defense of his criminal trial.”); United States v. Sammons, 918 F.2d 592, 602 (6th Cir.1990) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“knowingly and voluntarily waives appointed representation by counsel in a criminal proceeding.”
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.