Marston v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2008
4 federal appellate · 5 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 Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Gault
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny incarceration, over thirty days, more or less, will usually result in loss of employment, with a consequent substantial detriment to the defendant and his family.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“his conviction has given rise to the very real civil disability of ten years' withdrawal of his driving permit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Collette
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.