Palmer v. Ashe’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 9 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 250 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2015 · most notably 62 Cal. 2d 338 - People v. Dorado (1965), Moore v. State of Michigan (1957)
125 federal appellate · 9 district · 70 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 Smith v. O'Grady · Hawk v. Olson · Bute v. People of State of Illinois · Uveges v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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 250 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 majoritye.g. Massey v. Moore · State v. Cruse
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.