People v. Mallory’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1998 · most notably Argersinger v. Hamlin (1972), Baker v. City of Fairbanks (1970)
3 federal appellate · 21 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Requests for appointment of appellate counsel shall be in writing and accompanied by an affidavit of indigency setting forth the facts upon which defendant relies for support of his claim that he is too poor to employ counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“an appeal as a matter of right ... and as provided by law ..., to have such reasonable assistance as may be necessary to perfect and prosecute an appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[9] Justice Souris acknowledged the anomalous consequences of requiring appellate counsel for all indigent misdemeanants as well as felons while”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.