Givens v. Zerbst’s Empirical Analysis
255 U.S. 11 · 1921
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan (1935)
40 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedEx parte Givins
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte Milligan · Ex Parte Tobias Watkins · Caha v. United States · Galpin v. Page · Runkle v. United States
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Considering that subject in the light stated, we think the court below was right in admitting, as it did, evidence to show the existence of a military status in the accused, since it did not change the court-martial record but simply met the collateral attack by showing that at the time of the trial the basis existed for the exertion by the court of the authority conferred upon it.””
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.