Pointer v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
1,612 federal appellate · 202 district · 5,170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8,137 later decisions (244 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973)
1,612 federal appellate · 202 district · 5,170 state decisions — followed in 50 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Mapp v. Ohio · Ker v. State of California
Cited together with Douglas v. Alabama · California v. Green · Bruton v. United States · Chapman v. State of California · Dutton v. Evans
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 8,137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”
314 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“complete and adequate opportunity to cross-examine”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Sixth Amendment's right of an accused to confront the witnesses against him ... is a fundamental right....”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Morgan v. State · State v. Hancock
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.