Roberts v.’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
376 federal appellate · 55 district · 245 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 953 later decisions (53 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973), Rose v. Lundy (1982)
376 federal appellate · 55 district · 245 state decisions — followed in 32 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Brown v. Allen · Draper v. Washington · Harrison v. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People
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 953 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our decisions for more than a decade now have made clear that differences in access to the instruments needed to vindicate legal rights, when based upon the financial situation of the defendant, are repugnant to the Constitution.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We can conceive of no reason why the State would wish to burden its judicial calendar with a narrow issue the resolution of which is predetermined by established federal principles.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“to require repetitious applications to state courts.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.