Singleton v. Lefkowitz’s Empirical Analysis
583 F.2d 618 · 1978
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably State v. Aillon (1987), Dickerson v. Alabama (1982)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Faretta v. California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Washington v. Texas · Estelle v. Williams · Patterson v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““when a defendant, years after his conviction, seeks habeas relief based on a trial judge’s alleged abuse of discretion in not granting a continuance, the petitioner should at the very least be obligated to furnish an affidavit setting forth his efforts during the interim to obtain a statement from the missing witness .. . . ” Singleton v. Lefkowitz, supra, 583 F.2d at 628-29 (Mansfield, J., dissenting).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boyd v. LeFevre“Confrontation and Compulsory Process; A Unified Theory of Evidence for Criminal Cases”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hogan“to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor.”
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.