Henry v. State of Mississippi’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
815 federal appellate · 94 district · 796 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,344 later decisions (120 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Faretta v. California (1975)
815 federal appellate · 94 district · 796 state decisions — followed in 43 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 Townsend v. Sain · Jackson v. Denno · Fay v. Noia · Ker v. State of California · Lovell v. City of Griffin
Cited together with Fay v. Noia · Johnson v. Zerbst · Townsend v. Sain · Wainwright v. Sykes · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera
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 2,344 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“giving effect to the contemporaneous objection rule for its own sake (and requiring) 'resort to an arid ritual of meaningless form.'”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ounsel's deliberate choice of the strategy would amount to a waiver binding on petitioner and would preclude him from a decision on the merits of his federal claim either in the state courts or here.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . we neither hold nor even remotely imply that the State must forgo insistence on its procedural requirements if it finds no waiver.”
12 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.