Byrd v. Ricketts’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Tweedy v. State (2004), 3 Va. App. 163 - Head v. Commonwealth (1986)
6 federal appellate · 34 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 Diaz v. United States · Taylor v. United States · Cawthon v. State · Wilson v. State · Frank 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“considerable authority to the effect that the voluntary absence of the accused waives his right to be present”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Byrd v. Hopper“Confrontation rights are personal to the accused ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Phillips
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.