William Garland v. State of Washington’s Empirical Analysis
232 U.S. 642 · 1914
Citation profile
166 federal appellate · 15 district · 229 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 482 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably Frank v. Mangum (1915), Badders v. United States (1916)
166 federal appellate · 15 district · 229 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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 United States v. Cruikshank · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Crain v. United States · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Humes
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 482 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due process of law, this court had held, does not require the state to adopt any particular form of procedure, so long as it appears that the accused has had sufficient notice of the [proceedings] and an adequate opportunity to [be heard].”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“technical enforcement of formal rights in criminal procedure . . . is no longer required in the prosecution of offenses under present systems of law.”
2 later decisions 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.