Donnell v. Swenson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Our ruling in regard to Douglas and its retrospective applicability to this case, and our order affords the Supreme Court of Missouri, if requested by the Attorney General of Missouri, the opportunity of deciding the Hamilton v. State of Alabama and White v. State of Maryland questions under the facts as we have found them. The federal question of whether those cases or either of them should be applied retrospectively is also open for decision.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Donnell v. Swenson · State v. Donnell

2. “The significance of that factual finding can be understood only in the light of the questions that petitioner attempted to present to the Supreme Court of Missouri. Among other questions, petitioner presented to that court the federal constitutional question of whether a proper application of the principles of Hamilton v. State of Alabama, 368 U.S. 52 , 82 S.Ct. 157 , 7 L.Ed.2d 114 ; White v. State of Maryland, 373 U.S. 59 , 83 S.Ct. 1050 , 10 L.Ed.2d 193 * * *, had been abridged by reason of the fact that he had been arraigned without counsel. [ 258 F.Supp. at 333 ].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Donnell v. Swenson