State Ex Rel. Gentry v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably O'Coin's, Inc. v. Treasurer of the County of Worcester (1972), Osborne v. Purdome (1951)
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Knox County Council v. State Ex Rel. McCormick · Ex Parte Hernreich v. Quinn · State v. Weatherby · City of St. Louis v. Meintz · Leslie v. Carter
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court has the inherent power to punish for contempt and if it has also the inherent power to appoint or request a lawyer, as an officer of the court, to represent it or the state in the prosecution of the contempt proceeding, that is all the power the court reasonably needs for its own protection and for the due administration of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“when a lawyer takes his license he takes it burdened with certain honorary obligations. He is a sworn minister of justice, and when commanded by the court he cannot withhold his services in cases prosecuted in forma pauperis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is the general rule and the better reasoned view that “in the absence of statute providing therefor, an attorney who has been assigned by the court to defend an indigent accused cannot recover compensation therefor from the public” (Annotations 130 A.L.R. 1439 , 1440; 36 L.R.A., N.S., 377-383), either for trying the case or for appealing it. Annotation 100 A.L.R. 321 , 331.”
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.