Baldasar v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
212 federal appellate · 25 district · 732 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,062 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Mendoza-Lopez (1987), Nichols v. United States (1994)
212 federal appellate · 25 district · 732 state decisions — followed in 45 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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 · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · United States v. Tucker · Argersinger v. Hamlin
Cited together with Scott v. Illinois · Burgett v. Texas · Argersinger v. Hamlin · Nichols v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright
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 1,062 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all the serious collateral consequences that a felony convictions entails”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Kelly · State v. Porter“[A] conviction which is invalid for purposes of imposing a sentence of imprisonment for the offense itself remains invalid for purposes of increasing a term of imprisonment for a subsequent conviction under a repeat-offender statute.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]his Court consistently has sustained repeat-offender laws as penalizing only the last offense committed by the defendant.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.