Council v. Clemmer’s Empirical Analysis
177 F.2d 22 · 1949
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably Jones v. United States (1964), McGill v. United States (1965)
49 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Haley v. Ohio · Avery v. State of Alabama
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is intended to indicate that the right of the defendant to have counsel assigned by the court relates only to proceedings in court and, therefore, does not include preliminary proceedings before a committing magistrate. 12”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. DeToro v. Pepersack
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.