Bortmess v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
375 F.2d 113 · 1967
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1997
7 federal appellate · 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 Carnley v. Cochran · Sandoval v. Tinsley · Gallegos v. Cox
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the accused is found to have expressly waived counsel, as here, the burden falls on him to show by a preponderance of the evidence that his acquiescence was not sufficiently understanding^ and intelligently made to amount to an effective waiver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gonzales
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.