Kirby v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
1,223 federal appellate · 159 district · 3,555 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6,042 later decisions (78 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), Edwards v. Arizona (1981)
1,223 federal appellate · 159 district · 3,555 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States
Cited together with United States v. Wade · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gilbert v. California · Stovall v. Denno · Brewer v. Williams
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 6,042 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether by way of formal charge, preliminary hearing, indictment, information, or arraignment.”
316 later decisions quote this exact passage“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he most critical period of the proceedings against these defendants”
3 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.