McConnell v. Rhay’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
233 federal appellate · 15 district · 283 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 656 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Desist v. United States (1969), United States v. United States Coin & Currency (1971)
233 federal appellate · 15 district · 283 state decisions — followed in 27 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
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Douglas v. People of State of California · Linkletter v. Walker · Mempa v. Rhay · Hamilton v. Alabama
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 656 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the necessity for the aid of counsel in marshaling the facts, introducing evidence of mitigating circumstances and in general aiding and assisting the defendant to present his case as to sentence is apparent.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“relate to 'the very integrity of the fact-finding process,'”
6 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.