Cox v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
361 F.2d 183 · 1966
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1994
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Townsend v. Sain · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Butler v. Burke
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.
““The concern of due process is fundamental fairness. The question to be asked in determining the legal adequacy of waiver of counsel is whether, in view of the totality of the circumstances of á particular case, it would ' be unfair because of the accused’s lack of understanding to allow the waiver to stand.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““To be valid such waiver must be made with an apprehension of the nature of the charges, the statutory offenses included within them, the range of allowable punishments thereunder, possible defenses to the charges and circumstances in mitigation thereof, and all other facts essential to a broad understanding of the whole matter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In some circumstances, the.failure to apprise a defendant of the maxi mum possible sentence could be a defect creating such unfairness that waiver of counsel is invalid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Witte v. Burke
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.