Powell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2010
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Frank v. Mangum · Crooker v. State of California · People v. Moran · State v. Vaszorich
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by himself and counsel. " Ky. Const. § 11 (emphasis added). The right to be heard has been historically defined as the right to receive guidance from counsel, as well as having counsel speak. Further, our law is replete with the principle that the right to counsel attaches "at every stage of his trial from its beginning to its end.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.