Smith v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
426 F.2d 767 · 1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1993
4 federal appellate · 7 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Linkletter v. Walker · Carnley v. Cochran · Burgett v. Texas · Smith v. Crouse
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a defendant's right to counsel] can not be deemed waived if the accused was not informed of his right to counsel even though he can not afford to pay”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if he wanted an attorney to represent him in this cause, and the said defendant stated that he did not want the service of an attorney.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If petitioner did not intelligently waive counsel in the 1942 proceeding, the 1942 conviction is invalid, and the life sentence which rests upon it is also invalid.”
1 later decision 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.