Sanders v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.2d 717 · 1938
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2004 · most notably Walker v. Johnston (1941), Ahrens v. Clark (1948)
85 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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 · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Carll · In re Jackson · McGowan v. Moody
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial and conviction of a person * * * incapable of making a defense violates certain immutable principles of justice which inhere in the very idea of free government.”
2 later decisions 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.