13 F. Supp. 253 - Bridwell v. Aderhold’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1962
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Patton v. United States · Harding · Jugiro v. Brush · Paoni 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There/aá‘Ts the custom, they were placed in isolation and so kept for sixteen days without being permitted to communicate with any one except the officers of the institution, but they did see the officers daily. They made no request of. the officers.to be permitted to see a lawyer, nor did they ask the officers to present to the trial judge a motion for new trial or application for appeal or. notice that they desired to move for a new trial or to take an appeal. “On May' 15, 1935, petitioners filed applications for appeal which were denied because filed too late.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Zerbst“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining Witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Zerbst“Both petitioners lived in distant cities of other states and neither had relatives, friends, or acquaintances in Charleston. . Both had little education and were without funds.. They testified that they had never been guilty of nor charged with any offense before,, and there was no evidence in rebuttal of these statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Zerbst
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.