Mayberry v. Pennsylvania’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
418 federal appellate · 36 district · 661 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,372 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Albright v. Oliver (1994), Arnett v. Kennedy (1974)
418 federal appellate · 36 district · 661 state decisions — followed in 47 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 Illinois v. Allen · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · In re Oliver · Ungar v. Sarafite · Bloom v. Illinois
Cited together with Offutt v. United States · Taylor v. Hayes · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Sacher v. United States · Bloom v. Illinois
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 1,372 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“embroiled in a running, bitter controversy”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[T]he wisdom of the trial judge' in appointing standby counsel lies in the fact that the pro se defendant will therefore have counsel available 'to perform all the services a trained advocate would perform ordinarily[ ]' ....”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a defendant in criminal contempt proceedings should be given a public trial before a judge other than the one reviled by the contemnor.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Browder · Ryan v. Moreland
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.