McAuliffe v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Pitts v. Glass (1974), 187 Ga. App. 818 - Oller v. State (1988)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Douglas v. People of State of California · Sims v. Balkcom · Johnson v. Caldwell · Walden v. State · Day v. Mills
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to counsel is his most vital and precious right since any other rights the accused [or convicted] may possess will remain sterile unless he has effective counsel to assert them in his behalf.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This right extends to every indigent accused who indicates his desire to appeal.”
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.