Doherty v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably Picard v. Connor (1971), Schreiner v. United States (1971)
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWilliams v. Commissioner (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Yi Au Lau v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Beasley
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every defendant who is unable to obtain counsel shall be entitled to have counsel assigned to represent him at every stage of the proceedings from his initial appearance before the commissioner or the court through appeal> unless he waives such appointment.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hutchins v. State““A person for whom counsel is appointed shall be represented at every stage of the proceedings from his initial appearance before the United States magistrate or the court through appeal including ancillary matters.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hutchins v. State““[C]ounsel appointed on appeal should advise the defendant of his right to initiate a further review by the filing of a petition for certiorari, and to file such petition, if requested by the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hutchins v. State
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.