Byrd v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
407 F.2d 363 · 1969
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably Arnold R. Jago, Superintendent v. United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division at Cleveland, and Harllel B. Jones (1978), Lumpkin v. Smith (1971)
43 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on Anders v. California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Stovall v. Denno · Griffin v. People of the State of 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he appeal here must provide as adequate a review of Petitioner’s conviction as if he had appealed immediately following sentencing.” Byrd ; supra, 407 F.2d at 366 (Footnote 8).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meadows v. Beto
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.