Sam Destefano v. Woods, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois. Frank Anthony Carceran’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
281 federal appellate · 19 district · 262 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 751 later decisions (83 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Rose v. Lundy (1982)
281 federal appellate · 19 district · 262 state decisions — followed in 31 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 Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Stovall v. Denno · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Douglas v. People of State of 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 751 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ll three factors favor only prospective application”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he values implemented by the right to jury trial would not measurably be served by requiring retrial of all persons convicted in the past by procedures not consistent with the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to jury trial generally tends to prevent arbitrariness and repression[,] ... `[w]e would not assert ... that every criminal trial or any particular trial held before a judge alone is unfair or that a defendant may never be as fairly treated by a judge as he would be by a jury.'”
3 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.