Sessions v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
372 F.2d 366 · 1966
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1982 · most notably Hodge v. United States (1969), Briley v. Wilson (1967)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Mapp v. Ohio
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Under California law a preliminary examination is not in and of itself a critical stage in the judicial proceedings such as to constitutionally require the appointment of counsel at all such hearings; (2) a California preliminary hearing may be 'critical' however, under the circumstances of a particular case * * *; (3) such a hearing is critical if the events which transpire at that hearing are likely to prejudice the effectiveness of legal assistance in the subsequent proceedings. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The pertinent question here, then, is whether in view of the events which transpired at Sessions' preliminary hearing * * * the effectiveness of his legal assistance in subsequent proceedings was impaired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“investigate as long and as thoroughly as the circumstances of the case * * * demand [ed].”
1 later decision 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.