Vaughn v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “` [A] trial court's failure to inform an accused of his right to request counsel is not necessarily fatal to its case. "Unless [the probationer's] revocation proceeding was one wherein the actual appointment of counsel was necessary to satisfy applicable due process requirements of fundamental fairness, then he would not have been entitled to have his request for counsel honored and the mere failure to have informed him of the right to make such a request could not have harmed him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gibbons v. State

2. “"`Since a probationer has no inflexible right to appointed counsel under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, there is no absolute requirement that he be informed of that right. A probationer is entitled only to be informed of his right to request counsel .' (Punctuation omitted.) [ Vaughn v. Rutledge , 265 Ga. 773 ,] 774(2), 462 S.E.2d 132 [(Ga. 1995)]. . . ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Law v. State