In Re Mears’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 1996 · most notably In Re Dobson (1965), In Re Rich (1966)
38 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 · Gideon v. Wainwright · Carnley v. Cochran · Hamilton v. Alabama · Betts v. Brady
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever a minor is charged with a crime in any court and is not represented by counsel the court shall forthwith appoint a guardian ad litem to defend the interests of the minor. Whenever a Minor is charged with a felony in any court, he shall be represented by counsel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Dobson
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.