Cole v. State of Arkansas’s Empirical Analysis
333 U.S. 196 · 1948
Citation profile
349 federal appellate · 42 district · 507 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,336 later decisions (138 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), Gault (1967)
349 federal appellate · 42 district · 507 state decisions — followed in 39 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 In re Oliver · Mooney v. Holohan · Frank v. Mangum · De Jonge v. Oregon
Cited together with In re Oliver · Jackson v. Virginia · De Jonge v. Oregon · Strickland v. Washington · Stirone v. United States
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 1,336 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No principle of procedural due process is more clearly established than that notice of the specific charge, and a chance to be heard in a trial of the issues raised by that charge, if desired, are among the constitutional rights of every accused in a criminal proceeding in all courts, state or federal.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o conform to due process of law, [criminal defendants are] entitled to have the validity of their convictions appraised on consideration of the case as it was tried and as the issues were determined in the trial court.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is as much a violation of due process to send an accused to prison following conviction of a charge on which he was never tried as it would be to convict him upon a charge that was never made.”
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.