Uveges v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Empirical Analysis
335 U.S. 437 · 1948
Citation profile
194 federal appellate · 20 district · 265 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 600 later decisions (53 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2007 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
194 federal appellate · 20 district · 265 state decisions — followed in 31 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Townsend v. Burke · Betts v. Brady · Walker v. Johnston
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 600 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court has repeatedly held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to afford defendants assistance of counsel in noncapital criminal cases when there are special circumstances showing that without a lawyer a defendant could not have an adequate and a fair defense.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The gravity of the crime and other factors — such as the age and education of the defendant, the conduct of the court or the prosecuting officials, and the complicated nature of the offense charged and the possible defenses thereto — render criminal proceedings without counsel so apt to result in injustice as to be fundamentally unfair, the latter group (referring to members of the United States Supreme Court) holds that the accused must have legal assistance under the Amendment whether he pleads guilty or elects to stand trial, whether he requests counsel or not. Only a waiver of counsel, understandingly made, justifies trial without counsel.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether the gravity of the crime and other factors such as the age and education of the defendant, the conduct of the court or prosecuting officials, and the complicated nature of the offense charged and the possible defenses theretorender criminal proceedings without counsel so apt to result in injustice as to be fundamentally unfair?”
2 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.