Geders v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
845 federal appellate · 58 district · 720 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,149 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Strickland v. Washington (1984), Cuyler v. Sullivan (1980)
845 federal appellate · 58 district · 720 state decisions — followed in 45 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Hamling v. United States · Argersinger v. Hamlin
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Cronic · Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Herring v. New York
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 2,149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the role of counsel is important precisely because ordinarily a defendant is ill-equipped to understand and deal with the trial process without a lawyer's guidance.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“impinged upon his right to the assistance of counsel.”
43 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“determine generally the order in which parties will adduce proof.”
34 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.