Lefkowitz v. Newsome’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
281 federal appellate · 56 district · 167 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 729 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably Wainwright v. Sykes (1977), Stone v. Powell (1976)
281 federal appellate · 56 district · 167 state decisions — followed in 27 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States ex rel. Newsome v. Malcolm (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Brady v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Santobello v. New York · Fay v. Noia
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 729 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once the defendant chooses to bypass the orderly procedure for litigating his constitutional claims in order to take the benefits, if any, of a plea of guilty, the State acquires a legitimate expectation of finality in the conviction thereby obtained.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But the Court also held that if the state courts have entertained the federal constitutional claims on the merits in a subsequent proceeding, notwithstanding the deliberate bypass, the federal courts have no discretion to deny the applicant habeas relief to which he is otherwise entitled.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The Brady trilogy announced the general rule that a guilty plea, intelligently and voluntarily made, bars the later assertion of constitutional challenges to the pretrial proceedings.”
4 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.