LeBlanc v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.2d 481 · 1973
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Roddy v. Black (1975), David McChesney v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary (1973)
23 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Romano v. United States · Walker v. City of Birmingham · Trujillo 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“continue to scrutinize with guarded caution those situations, such as this one where the reviewing court cannot ascertain from the trial transcript that the stringent due process requirements imposed on the states by [Boykin ] have been complied with scrupulously.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clayton v. Blackburn“. . . under the circumstances of this case, we agree with its [i. e., the lower court's] acceptance of evidence obtained in a post-conviction hearing as curative of the otherwise defective trial transcript . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is error, plain on the face of the record, for a trial judge to accept a guilty plea without an affirmative showing that it is intelligently and voluntarily made,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.