Bassett v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
464 F.2d 347 · 1972
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 1990 · most notably Boykins v. Wainwright (1984), Carpenter v. United States (1981)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Duncan v. State of Louisiana
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permitting the states wide latitude in fashioning rules of evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burden v. Zant · Burden v. Zant“create the possibility that the jury might misapprehend the proper burden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poole v. Georgia
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.