State v. Cynkowski’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 1976 · most notably State v. Sims (1974), State v. LaFera (1964)
2 district · 39 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 · Bowen v. Johnston · Libby, McNeill & Libby v. Alaska Industrial Board · Williams v. Kaiser · Bute v. People of State of Illinois
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the defendant was convicted upon a proper charge by a competent court after fair trial or upon a plea of guilty or non vult fairly entered, no jurisdictional defect would appear; if, however, the defendant was never afforded opportunity for fair trial or his plea was entered under circumstances which rendered its acceptance fundamentally unfair or shocking to a sense of justice, the resulting conviction would violate the due process clause * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“burden of proving his charges [rests] affirmatively upon the defendant who obtained the writ.”
1 later decision 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.