Terry Appeal’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2009 · most notably McKeiver v. Pennsylvania (1971), Commonwealth v. Pettus (1981)
72 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Kent v. United States · Rodriguez v. Lash
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The decision is somewhat of a paradox, being both broad and narrow at the same time."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. S S v. State · S S v. State““[Jjudges in the juvenile courts do take a different view of their role than that taken by their counterparts in the criminal courts. * * * [T]he juvenile system has available and utilizes much more fully various diagnostic and rehabilitative services. [T]he end result of a declaration of delinquency is significantly different from and less onerous than a finding of criminal guilt. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"`* * * [O]f all the possible due process rights which could be applied in the juvenile courts, the right to trial by jury is the one which would most likely be disruptive of the unique nature of the juvenile process * * *.'" 403 U.S. at 540 , 91 S.Ct. at 1983 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Knox
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.