Edge v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
347 F.2d 190 · 1965
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably Wainwright v. Simpson (1966), Beto v. Martin (1968)
35 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 Douglas v. People of State of California · Skibs A/S Jolund v. American Smelting & Refining Co. · Pate v. Holman · Black v. United States · Blair v. People
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * an indig'ent’s right to appellate counsel, which Douglas recognizes as an ‘absolute’ right guaranteed under both the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause, is not absolute in the sense that the right to trial counsel is absolute. It is not necessary that the trial judge initiate action toward the appointment of appellate counsel by advising a convicted person of his rights or by making any inquiry as to his indi-gency, although such minimal action at the time of sentencing seems highly desirable. * * * For a petitioner to be entitled to post-conviction relief, it is not enough to show that indigency occasioned the petitioner’s inability to employ counsel or to appeal; the petitioner must show that the State deprived him of his Fourteenth Amendment rights.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It has not yet been held, to our knowledge, that the State could be precluded from retrying him on the manslaughter charge or from refusing to credit his twelve-year’s service against any subsequent sentence which might be imposed upon him. * * * “The question is a knotty one which should be considered by the appellant and the counsel who will represent him upon remand. We express no opinion on whether it would be a denial of due process for the State to reincarcerate Edge for the same offense, if he is successful in obtaining habeas corpus relief, without any credit for the twelve years he has already served. The spectre of Edge’s being subjected to as much as twenty more years of prison is such, however, that we feel constrained expressly to allude to the problem.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Ferrell
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.