Alford v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2018
9 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 McKeiver v. Pennsylvania · State Ex Rel. Fallis v. Caldwell · 338 F. Supp. 827 - Broadway v. Beto · Freshour v. Turner · United States v. Willard E. Fraser Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In adjudicatory hearings to determine if a child is delinquent or in need of supervision, any person entitled to service of summons or the state shall have the right to demand a trial by jury, which shall be granted as in other cases, unless waived , or the judge on the judge's own motion may call a jury to try any such case. Such jury shall consist of six persons.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. G.W. v. STATE · G.W. v. State“Oklahoma is one of only ten states which provides, by statute, greater safeguards for the rights of juveniles than are required by the United States Constitution”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. G.W. v. STATE · G.W. v. State“(1) "... in its discretion continue the juvenile proceeding;" or, (2) "... it may certify such child ... for proper criminal proceedings... ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garrison v. Jennings
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.