Cowan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
December 1978
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on James Richard Ellis v. State of Oklahoma and Warden Ray H. Page · Roberts v. State · Parks v. State · Thompson v. State · Fugett v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to effective and adequate counsel does not encompass the right to have a specific attorney appointed. It is the general rule that relief from conviction on the ground of incompetent or ineffective counsel will be granted only when the trial was a farce or a mockery of justice, or was shocking to the conscience of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williamson v. State
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.