Billy Ray Powell v. Carl G. Hocker, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
453 F.2d 652 · 1971
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 1992 · most notably 18 Cal. 3d 698 - People v. Chi Ko Wong (1976), United States v. Chambers (1991)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · North Carolina v. Pearce · Stovall v. Denno · Brady v. United States
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a)lthough our decision (in Kent ) turned upon the language of the statute, we emphasized the necessity that 'the basic requirements of due process and fairness' be satisfied in such proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Wainwright
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.