E. J. McClain v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary’s Empirical Analysis
435 F.2d 327 · 1970
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably United States v. Dellinger (1972), Gilmore v. Armontrout (1988)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Anders v. California · Fay v. Noia · Douglas v. People of State of California · Coleman v. Alabama · Mempa v. Rhay
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by reason of the absence of counsel the appellant lost [a] right or privilege or the [S]tate gained some advantage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be overcome by evidence giving a clear indication of lack of prejudice.”
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.