DeVaughn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Tichnell v. State (1980), 28 Md. App. 640 - Evans v. State (1975)
9 federal appellate · 56 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 Chisley v. State · Basoff v. State · Bruce v. State · Gunther v. State · Trieschman v. Eaton
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the law, as in Maryland, divides murder into grades, there is a presumption that the homicide is murder in the second degree * * *.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.