United States v. Lovett’s Empirical Analysis
844 F.2d 487 · 1988
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably United States v. Vonn (2002), United States v. Montoya (1989)
21 federal appellate ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 1010
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · Hill v. Lockhart · McCarthy v. United States · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was fully informed, in substance, that he had a right to plead not guilty or to persist in the plea of not guilty.... The court's detailed explanation of the rights attendant to a jury trial ... indicate that [the defendant] was aware of his right to persist in his plea of not guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Lovett was represented by an attorney. Therefore, the district court was not required to inform Lovett that even if he could not afford one, an attorney could be appointed to assist him at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here is no suggestion in the record that Lovett did not know about his right to counsel at trial . . . through his own extensive experience as a criminal defendant.”
2 later decisions 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.