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581 F.2d 287 · 1978

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
8
states following
April 2002
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2002

1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

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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 Kent v. United States · Breed v. Jones · Cox v. United States · United States v. Quinones · United States of Amercia Ex Rel. Emile A. Turner, H-6528 v. Alfred T. Rundle, Supt

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[i]t is important to point out that there are no substantive constitutional requirements as to the content of the statutory scheme a state may select. '[T]he [Supreme] Court has never attempted to prescribe criteria for, or the nature and quantum of evidence that must support, a decision to transfer a juvenile for trial in adult court.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “This means that the procedural protections which must be afforded a juvenile before he may be transferred to adult offender status vary in terms of the particular statutory scheme which entitles him to juvenile status in the first place.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “We believe that this result is required by the statute read in the context of constitutional principles relating to due process and the assistance of counsel.”
    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.