In the Matter of Samuel Winship’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3,877 federal appellate · 577 district · 10,777 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18,837 later decisions (441 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), United States v. Booker (2004)
3,877 federal appellate · 577 district · 10,777 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
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Mapp v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Gault
Cited together with Mullaney v. Wilbur · Jackson v. Virginia · Sandstrom v. Montana · Patterson v. New York · Chapman v. 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 18,837 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Due Process Clause protects the accused against conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt of every fact necessary to constitute the crime with which he is charged.”
746 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"As in Gault [ 387 U.S. 1 , 87 S.Ct. 1428 , 18 L.Ed.2d 527 ] `we are not here concerned with . . . the pre-judicial stages of the juvenile process, nor do we direct our attention to the post-adjudicative or dispositional process.'"”
6 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.