Rubin F. Needel v. Palmer C. Scafati, Superintendent’s Empirical Analysis
412 F.2d 761 · 1969
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1987 · most notably Barker v. Wingo (1972), Picard v. Connor (1971)
47 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Townsend v. Sain · Carnley v. Cochran · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · United States v. Ewell
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile with hindsight one can find in the state court records seeds of the argument, so vigorously urged in the federal courts, ... the seeds never came to visible fruition.”
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.