State v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2003
2 federal appellate · 20 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 · Counselman v. Hitchcock · Wood v. United States · Emery's case · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Simmons Hardware Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rights guaranteed by the Constitution apply to all alike-the well-informed who know their rights as well as to the ignorant who never heard of such rights. There stands the right like the rock of Gibraltar and it so remains protecting the fife and liberty of every person whether the particular person knows about it or not.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bird · State v. Tapson“* * * In holding an inquest the coroner acts judicially. Commonwealth v. Hawkins, 3 Gray, Mass. 463; People v. Devine, 44 Cal. 452 ; Boisliniere v. Board of County Commissioners, 32 Mo. 375 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such waiver, to be recognized by the courts, must be informed and intelligent for there can be no waiver by one who does not know his rights or what he is waiving.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bird
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.