Specht v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
448 federal appellate · 75 district · 845 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,639 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Almendarez-Torres v. United States (1998), Boykin v. Alabama (1969)
448 federal appellate · 75 district · 845 state decisions — followed in 48 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSpecht v. Patterson (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pointer v. Texas · Williams v. People of State of New York · Oyler v. Boles · Baxstrom v. Herold
Cited together with Williams v. People of State of New York · Gault · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Baxstrom v. Herold · Morrissey v. Brewer
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 1,639 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due process, in other words, requires that he be present with counsel, have an opportunity to be heard, be confronted with witnesses against him, have the right to cross-examine, and to offer evidence of his own. And there must be findings adequate to make meaningful any appeal that is allowed.”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not make the commission of a specified crime the basis for sentencing,”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitutes a threat of bodily harm to members of the public”
15 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.