Aurweid George Reickauer v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent Virginia State Penitentiary’s Empirical Analysis
299 F.2d 170 · 1962
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably Barbee v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary (1964), United States of America Ex Rel. John McGrath v. J. E. Lavallee, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York (1963)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Mooney v. Holohan · Betts v. Brady · Chandler v. Warden Fretag · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Herman v. W Claudy
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly the petition alleges precise and distinct facts which if true show that the petitioner was denied counsel of his own choice. Such denial violates the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment and renders his conviction and sentencing void. This right is absolute and no showing of special circumstances is necessary.”
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.