Entsminger v. Iowa’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
149 federal appellate · 3 district · 187 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 404 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2020 · most notably Jones v. Barnes (1983), Evitts v. Lucey (1985)
149 federal appellate · 3 district · 187 state decisions — followed in 27 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 Anders v. California · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Lane v. Brown · Smith v. Bennett
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 404 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ppointed counsel must function in the active role of an advocate, as opposed to that of amicus curiae”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Such procedure automatically deprived him of a full record, briefs, and arguments on the bare election of his appointed counsel, without providing any notice to him or to the reviewing court that he had chosen not to file the complete record in the case."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Breen“there is no question but that [defendant] was precluded from obtaining a complete and effective appellate review of his conviction by the operation of the clerk's transcript.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winkler v. Parris
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.