Lisenba v. People of State of California’s Empirical Analysis
314 U.S. 219 · 1941
Citation profile
895 federal appellate · 131 district · 844 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,719 later decisions (183 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
895 federal appellate · 131 district · 844 state decisions — followed in 48 states
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 Mooney v. Holohan · Bram v. United States · Whitney v. People of State of California · Brown v. State of Mississippi
Cited together with Chambers v. Florida · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brown v. State of Mississippi · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Malinski v. People of State of New York
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 2,719 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failure to observe that fundamental fairness essential to the very concept of justice.”
72 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'foreclose inquiry as to whether, in a given case, the application of that rule works a deprivation of the prisoner's life or liberty without due process of law.'”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“free choice to admit, to deny, or to refuse to answer.”
12 later decisions 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.