Ex rel. Cobb v. Balkcom’s Empirical Analysis
339 F.2d 95 · 1964
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1986 · most notably Case v. State of Nebraska (1965), Labat v. Bennett (1966)
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Fay v. Noia · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Rodriguez v. New York · Strauder v. West Virginia
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that a Negro defendant in a criminal case is entitled to indictment by a grand jury and trial before a traverse jury from which Negroes have not been arbitrarily and systematically excluded. A conviction cannot stand where such is established for it constitutes a denial of due process and of the equal protection of the laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e are not presented here with a waiver case where a 'particular jury was desired by defendant's counsel after conscientious consideration of that course of action which would be best for his client's cause,' see United States ex rel. Goldsby v. Harpole, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winters v. Cook“We * * * pretermit the question of denial of the effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed to a state prisoner by the Sixth Amendment * * *. 7 ****** 8 * * * 9”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winters v. Cook
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.