Buchalter v. People of State of New York Weiss’s Empirical Analysis
319 U.S. 427 · 1943
Citation profile
154 federal appellate · 16 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 342 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2012 · most notably Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell (1967), Malinski v. People of State of New York (1945)
154 federal appellate · 16 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Mooney v. Holohan · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Brown v. State of Mississippi
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 342 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that action by a state through any of its agencies must be consistent with the fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of our civil and political institutions, which not infrequently are designated as the Taw of the land.’ Where this requirement has been disregarded in a criminal trial in a state court this court has not hesitated to exercise its jurisdiction to enforce the constitutional guarantee.” 5”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not enable us to review errors of state law however material under that law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As we have recently said, `it is not asking too much that the burden of showing essential unfairness be sustained by him who claims such injustice and seeks to have the result set aside, and that it be sustained not as a matter of speculation but as a demonstrable reality.'”
3 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.