Schmittler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Blackburn v. State (1973), Langley v. State (1971)
6 federal appellate · 52 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 Hinshaw v. State · United States v. Sturm · McKee v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York · Wright v. Peabody Coal Co. · Lee 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“attorney discharged his full duty and it should require strong and convincing proof to overcome this presumption,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“did not produce his attorney's affidavit or testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““There are occasions when testimony cannot be directly controverted, as would be the case if a convicted man’s former attorney had died, was otherwise unavailable, or did not recollect the facts. If the uncorroborated statements of a man so vitally interested in the result must be accepted as true merely because such assertions have not been expressly denied, and when other facts and circumstances point in a different direction, it would obviously furnish a ready avenue of escape for any and all who had been convicted and imprisoned.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gurecki
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.