James v. Strange’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
90 federal appellate · 43 district · 249 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 529 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Faretta v. California (1975), San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973)
90 federal appellate · 43 district · 249 state decisions — followed in 34 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Wade · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California
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 529 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]tate recoupment laws, notwithstanding the state interests they may serve, need not blight in such discriminatory fashion the hopes of indigents for self-sufficiency and self-respect.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Haslam · Thomas v. Haslam“Misguided laws may nonetheless be constitutional. ... Our task ... is not to weigh this statute's effectiveness but its constitutionality.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fowler v. Benson · Thomas v. Haslam“requirement of some rationality in the nature of the class singled out”
5 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.