Balkcom v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
October 1972
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Sims v. Balkcom · Cobb v. State · Henson v. Scoggins · Fleming v. Lowry
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether it was advisable and to his best interest to seek and obtain a new trial for him was a decision which his attorneys ought to have made and evidently did make for their illiterate client.”
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.