Jacobs v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
350 F.2d 571 · 1965
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Johnson v. State (1982), Tyler v. Beto (1968)
27 federal appellate · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2106 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Coppedge v. United States · Lane v. Brown
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unquestionably in the proceeding below the defendant, if financially able, would have had the right to call a privately retained psychiatrist as a witness. It is obvious that only his inability to pay for the services of a psychiatrist prevented a proper presentation of his case. The Supreme Court has unmistakably held that in criminal proceedings it will not tolerate discrimination between indigents and those who possess, the means to protect their rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“position could not be fully developed for lack of available professional assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Martin
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.