Savage v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
924 F.2d 1459 · 1990
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 4 Cal. 4th 1017 - People v. Stansbury (1993), United States v. Arlt (1994)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 11 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Faretta v. California · McKaskle v. Wiggins · United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Yamanis v. United States
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“abide by rules of procedure and courtroom protocol.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not able and willing to abide by rules of procedure and courtroom protocol.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]xercise of the Faretta right has never been contingent on an accused's representing himself well. In fact, all have long recognized that the defendant who chooses to represent himself is almost always ill-served by his choice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Peters v. Gunn
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.