Young v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
892 F.2d 1348 · 1989
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2011
12 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Edwards v. Arizona · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Meyer stands as an exception to the general rule that to constitute a valid waiver of counsel the [state] trial judge must apprise the defendant on the record of the advantages and disadvantages of self-representation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]ot ... every time a defendant requests a new lawyer, ... should [he] be indulged. These requests will sometimes, perhaps often, be dilatory tactics. A defendant has no right to manipulate his right to counsel in order to delay or disrupt the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Although [the defendant's] decision to represent himself can be construed to be 'voluntary' in a sense, to satisfy constitutional requirements the choice to forego counsel must also be 'knowingly and intelligently made.'”
1 later decision 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.