Gault’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
1,169 federal appellate · 236 district · 7,491 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10,162 later decisions (185 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), In the Matter of Samuel Winship (1970)
1,169 federal appellate · 236 district · 7,491 state decisions — followed in 50 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 5031 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Gideon v. Wainwright · Jackson v. Denno
Cited together with Kent v. United States · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · McKeiver v. Pennsylvania · Gideon v. Wainwright
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 10,162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neither the Fourteenth Amendment nor the Bill of Rights is for adults alone.”
627 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a)lthough our decision (in Kent ) turned upon the language of the statute, we emphasized the necessity that 'the basic requirements of due process and fairness' be satisfied in such proceedings.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cradle v. Peyton · Matter of SJC“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed * * *.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Santana · (1973)
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.