Harrison v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
387 F.2d 203 · 1967
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 5 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Harrison v. United States (1968), United States v. Decoster (1976)
39 federal appellate · 5 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Escobedo v. Illinois · Griffin v. California
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are not satisfied when the accused is 'represented' by a layman masquerading as a qualified attorney.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Failure to heed the constitutional admonition that the accused enjoy the right to assistance of counsel negates completely the court’s jurisdiction to proceed. The proceeding is void, the occurrences therein are vitiated; transpirations otherwise legal go for naught.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“admitted to the practice of the law, no matter how intelligent or well educated he may be.”
2 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.