Thomas v. Savage’s Empirical Analysis
513 F.2d 536 · 1975
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1997 · most notably Scott v. Illinois (1979), Farrow v. United States (1978)
25 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Harrington v. California · United States v. Tucker · Argersinger v. Hamlin
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The necessity for counsel is judged by the maximum penalty the defendant may receive. ... In this respect the cases of this circuit go beyond the Supreme Court’s decision in Argersinger v. Hamlin, . . ., which would only require the appointment of counsel when a sentence of imprisonment is imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Griffin v. Blackburn“in part upon misinformation of a constitutional magnitude.”
1 later decision 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.