State v. Donnell’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 1993
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
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 · Escobedo v. Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Hamilton v. Alabama · Spano v. People of the State of New York
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have obtained on the Court’s own motion certified copies c-f the minutes of the proceedings prior to the last and final trial. These show the following: “Monday, March 7, 1960 — Arraignment continued to 3/16/60. Wednesday, March 16, 1960 — Sidney Ruben appointed by Court as Attorney for Defendant. Pleads Not Guilty; Trial Set March 28, 1960. Monday, March 21, 1960 — Erving Cooper appointed by Court as Attorney for Defendant. Sidney Ruben withdraws as attorney for defendant. Erving Cooper withdrawn as attorney for defendant. Jerome Kalishman appointed by Court as attorney for defendant. Wednesday, March 30, 1960 — Continued to next term of Court for want of time to try — April 4, 1960 — Monday, April 4, 1960 — Continued for State — April 11, 1960.” ( 387 S.W.2d at 510 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Donnell v. Swenson“* * * [T]he complete answer to this contention is that counsel was appointed for defendant at the time of his arraignment, as already demonstrated, and a plea of not guilty was entered. We have seen fit to ascertain the facts by means of a certificate supplementing both the present record and the record in the original criminal case No. 48601 ( 351 S.W.2d 775 ), which latter record we have also read and considered here. ( 387 S.W.2d at 512 ) (emphasis the Court’s.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Donnell v. Swenson“The Gideon case, which established the right to counsel in the trial of a felony case, was decided on March 18, 1963. The Douglas case was decided on March 18,1963. * * * The judgment and sentence involved here was rendered on September 7, 1960, two and one-half years prior to the ruling in Douglas supra, that counsel was there required on appeal. ( 387 S.W. 2d at 513-514 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Donnell v. Swenson
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.