Menefield v. Borg’s Empirical Analysis
881 F.2d 696 · 1989
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably 27 Cal. 4th 1041 - People v. Koontz (2002), Marshall v. Rodgers (2013)
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Wade · Penson v. Ohio
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'if failure to pursue strategies or remedies results in a loss of significant rights,'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“at least in the absence of extraordinary circumstances, an accused who requests an attorney at the time of a motion for a new trial is entitled to have one appointed, unless the government can show that the request is made for a bad faith purpose.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trial judge sits as the '13th juror' in evaluating the weight”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.