James J. Connor v. Philip J. Picard’s Empirical Analysis
434 F.2d 673 · 1970
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1999 · most notably Picard v. Connor (1971), United States v. De Cavalcante (1971)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Bain Jr · Beck v. Washington
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an opportunity to apply controlling legal principles to the facts bearing upon [his] constitutional claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the procedure by which (Connor) was brought to trial deprived him of the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection of the laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.