Sanders v. Craven’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 478 · 1973
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1992 · most notably Cooper v. Fitzharris (1978), United States v. Burton (1978)
17 federal appellate · 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 McMann v. Richardson · Tollett v. Henderson · Rodriquez v. United States · Davis v. United States · Wallace v. Heinze
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he district judge may not circumvent the challenge of denial of effective counsel by, in effect, holding that any error would be harmless and, on that basis, fail to determine whether there has been an impermissible deprivation of Sixth Amendment rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.