United States v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
913 F.2d 712 · 1990
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably United States v. Sarno (1995), Robinson v. Ignacio (2004)
64 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 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 Faretta v. California · Bell v. Wolfish · Brewer v. Williams · Patterson v. Illinois · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville 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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Because a defendant normally gives up more than he gains when he elects self-representation,' the district court is required to make 'reasonably certain that he in fact wishes to represent himself.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is no authority for the proposition that [a defendant] is entitled to an absolutely unconditional choice between exercising his right to counsel and his right to self-representation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a criminal defendant may be asked to choose between waiver and another course of action, so long as the course of action offered is not constitutionally offensive.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.