Kitchens v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 11 district · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 316 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2012 · most notably Lewis v. United States (1980), Loper v. Beto (1972)
81 federal appellate · 11 district · 170 state decisions — followed in 30 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 · Stovall v. Denno · Linkletter v. Walker · Carnley v. Cochran · Desist v. United States
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 316 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'But it is settled that where the assistance of counsel is a constitutional requisite, the right to be furnished counsel does not depend on a request. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No part of its case went to the issue of indigency.”
2 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.