Agee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
November 1979
most recently cited
5 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Vaca v. Sipes · Roger Lee McQueen v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden · Swenson v. Stidham · McQueen v. State · State v. Robinson
Most-quoted passages
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“We are well aware that irrespective of the findings of experienced state trial judges, who hear the evidence first-hand and have the opportunity to observe the demeanor of the witnesses, and the further determination of state appellate courts that such findings are not clearly erroneous and are supported by the record, there are those with omniscient hindsight who render state post-conviction proceedings an exercise in futility and further “endanger the delicate federal-state relationship in the criminal law enforcement field.” Fields v. State, supra [Mo., 468 S.W.2d 31 ], [512 S.W.2d at 403],”
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.