Goslin v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
400 F.2d 594 · 1968
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Betts v. Brady · Harvey v. Mississippi
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One accused of crime has the right to the assistance of counsel before entering a plea because of the disadvantageous position of an unassisted layman in a court of law and because of the serious consequences which may attend a guilty plea. Such disadvantages and consequences may weigh as heavily on an accused misdemeanant as on an accused felon.” Harvey v. Mississippi, supra, at 269 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phillips v. Cole
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.