Norvell v. State of Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 15 district · 251 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 501 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Peyton v. Rowe (1968), 62 Cal. 2d 368 - In Re Lopez (1965)
125 federal appellate · 15 district · 251 state decisions — followed in 29 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Terminiello v. Chicago · Draper v. Washington · Tigner v. Texas
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 501 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When, through no fault of the State, transcripts of criminal trials are no longer available because of the death of the court reporter, some practical accommodation must be made.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If it appeared that the lawyer who represented petitioner at the trial refused to represent him on the appeal and petitioner's indigency prevented him from retaining another, we would have a different case.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The issue in the case is whether Illinois has made an ‘invidious discrimination’ against petitioner. Griffin v. [People of State of] Illinois * * *. More precisely, the question is whether when a transcript cannot subsequently be obtained or reconstructed through no fault of the State, may it constitutionally draw the line against indigents who had lawyers at their trial but after conviction did not pursue their remedy? Illinois on the face of its rules has denied relief in such a case. And so we have the narrow question — whether a State may avoid the obligation of Griffin v. [People of State of] Illinois, where, without fault, no transcript can be made available, the indigent having had a lawyer at the trial and no remedy having been sought at the time. “If it appeared that the lawyer who represented petitioner at the trial refused to represent him on the appeal and petitioner’s indigency prevented him from retaining another, we would have a different case. * * * ””
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.