Sawyer v. Brough’s Empirical Analysis
358 F.2d 70 · 1966
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 69 Cal. 2d 765 - People v. Chacon (1968), State v. Kruchten (1966)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Glasser v. United States · Hayman v. United States · 225 F. Supp. 863 - Holland v. Boles · Sawyer v. Brough
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Most assuredly we do not mean to impugn the integrity of court-assigned counsel, but there was no finding by the District Court that counsel was not handicapped in his representation of the two defendants by the conflict of interest. * * * It is not necessary that Sawyer delineate the precise manner in which he has been harmed by the conflict of interest; the possibility of harm is sufficient to render his conviction invalid.” (See p. 73)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““To determine the precise degree of prejudice sustained by Glasser as a result of the court’s appointment of Stewart as counsel for Kretske is at once difficult and unnecessary. The right to have the assistance of counsel is too fundamental and absolute to allow courts to indulge in nice calculations as to the amount of prejudice arising from its denial. . . 315 U.S. at 75-76 , 62 S.Ct. at 467 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.