Fair v. Balkcom’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 1998 · most notably Chapel v. State (1998), Whippler v. Balkcom (1965)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 12 Ga. App. 615 - Griffin v. State · Tigner v. State · Walker v. State · Charlon v. State · Delk v. State
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The petitioner is not entitled to be released. He must face the charges against him. He is hereby remanded to the custody of the respondent prison warden, who is hereby ordered to deliver him to the custody of the Sheriff of Early County, Georgia, for further proceedings in the superior court of that county. Let the plea of guilty be withdrawn; let the judgment and sentence of the Superior Court of Early County against this petitioner be vacated and set aside; and let the accused be arraigned as though no plea had been entered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[Art. I, Sec. I, Par. XIV]. . . guarantees such person who is unable to employ counsel the right to have counsel appointed for him by the court. . .' That benefit of counsel is not an empty right has been emphasized time and time again. . . . That reasonable time is necessary for the right to be truly a substantial one has been recognized in many cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Every person charged with an offense against the laws of this State shall have the privilege and benefit of counsel.”
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.