Brookhart v. Janis’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
590 federal appellate · 67 district · 810 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,958 later decisions (84 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), Faretta v. California (1975)
590 federal appellate · 67 district · 810 state decisions — followed in 47 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 Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Pointer v. Texas · Malloy v. Hogan · Douglas v. Alabama
Cited together with Johnson v. Zerbst · Pointer v. Texas · Chapman v. State of California · Boykin v. Alabama · Davis v. Alaska
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 1,958 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitutional error of the first magnitude”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitutional rights of a defendant cannot be waived by his counsel”
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.