Williams v. Coiner’s Empirical Analysis
392 F.2d 210 · 1968
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1991 · most notably Loper v. Beto (1972), United States v. Thoresen (1970)
35 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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 · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Burgett v. Texas · James Graham v. State of West Virginia · Greer v. Beto
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If upon investigation it is found that Williams desired and sought an appeal, that he was refused by his lawyers because of his indigence and that he was not advised of his right to have the state provide counsel and the requisite transcript, then the District Court should order petitioner’s release unless the state’s appellate courts will grant a delayed appeal. Puckett v. State of North Carolina, 343 F.2d 452 (4th Cir. 1965); Newsom v. Peyton, 341 F.2d 904 (4th Cir. 1965).’’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not a jurisdictional concept but simply a flexible matter of comity.”
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.