Gideon v. St. Charles’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1990
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 Ricker, Lee & Co. v. Shoemaker · 15 Tex. Civ. App. 322 - Wood & Kinkaid v. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Bates v. J. G. Smith & Bros. · Provident Mutual Building-Loan Ass'n v. Schwertner · 28 Tex. Civ. App. 61 - Wigg v. Dooley
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the complaint shall be filed with the clerk, and the other regulations prescribed by law shall be complied with, the clerk shall forthwith indorse on the complaint the day and month and year that it is filed, and at any time within one year thereafter the plaintiff may have a summons issued....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.