Strattman v. Studt’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Joseph (2010), State v. Threatt (2006)
3 federal appellate · 126 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Stovall v. Denno · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]osts are taxed against certain litigants for the purpose of lightening the burden on taxpayers financing the court system.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage““No person shall be imprisoned for debt in any civil action, on mesne or final process, unless in cases of fraud.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In criminal trials a State can no more discriminate on account of poverty than on account of religion, race, or color.... Such a denial [of a free transcript] is a misfit in a country dedicated to affording equal justice to all and special privileges to none in the administration of its criminal law. [Fn. omitted.] There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.