Brown v. Beto’s Empirical Analysis
377 F.2d 950 · 1967
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently February 1986 · most notably 3 Cal. 3d 595 - People v. West (1970), Kimbrough v. Beto (1969)
81 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 11 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 MacHibroda v. United States · McNally v. Hill · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · Page v. Work · MacKenna v. Ellis
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We interpret the right to counsel as the right to effective counsel. We interpret counsel to mean not errorless counsel, and not counsel judged ineffective by hindsight, but counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if voluntarily and understandingly made, is conclusive as to the defendant's guilt, admitting all the facts charged and waiving all non-jurisdictional defects in the prior proceedings against him.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mason v. Anderson · Litton v. Beto“[p]roperly safeguarded plea discussions and plea agreements between an accused and a prosecutor are consistent with the fair administration of justice.”
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.