State v. Erwin’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Evitts v. Lucey (1985), State v. Caraballo (1980)
38 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 Entsminger v. Iowa · Herbert Eugene Blanchard v. Lou v. Brewer, Warden · Re Edward J. Carvelo · State v. Dawson · Kalauli Ex Rel. Kalauli v. Lum
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]otwithstanding counsel's failure to comply with the time requirements of HRAP Rule 4(b), Knight, as a criminal defendant, is entitled, on his first appeal, to effective counsel who may not deprive him of his appeal by failure to comply with procedural rules”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Riveira · In Re Rgb“that a notice of appeal complying with [Hawai`i Rules of Criminal Procedure] Rule 37(b), was not filed within the ten-day period prescribed by Rule 37(c).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Rgb“failure by appointed counsel to commence the simple steps for appeal is a blatant denial of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Rgb
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.