United States Ex Rel. Benjamin Reid v. Mark S. Richmond, Warden of Connecticut State Prison’s Empirical Analysis
295 F.2d 83 · 1961
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1988 · most notably Link v. Wabash Railroad (1962), Brubaker v. Dickson (1962)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Yakus v. United States · Culombe v. Connecticut · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Rogers v. Richmond
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Having made no objection, Reid should not now be heard to raise constitutional objections which he did not see fit to urge at the earlier stage. * * * “Every defendant must, of course, be accorded a fair trial. But the state is also entitled to a fair trial. When, after an extended hearing, informed and experienced defense counsel has taken a position, and the state, in reliance on it, has tried its case accordingly, it would be unduly tipping the scales of justice against the state to permit a defendant to argue that his conviction must be vacated because his counsel should not have taken the position he did and should not have made the concessions on which the state acted. * * * f>”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It was the strategy of the defense to admit all that had happened, including the confessions, and to attempt thereby to derive whatever benefit there might be from an open and consistent course of not attempting to deny or conceal anything from the jury. 295 F.2d at 87 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to rely on the decisions made by counsel and the defendant himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.