Sutton v. Lash’s Empirical Analysis
576 F.2d 738 · 1978
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Lowe v. Letsinger (1985), Davis v. Adult Parole Authority (1979)
14 federal appellate · 8 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 Anders v. California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain · Fay v. Noia
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the proper course to be taken by this Court is to award the petitioner the maximum relief that he could have obtained if his appeal had been properly perfected and he had been successful in prosecuting it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“were entitled to secure a transcript or, alternatively, the state was obligated to provide adequate appellate review, due to their undenied indigency.”
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.