Massie v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
624 F.2d 72 · 1980
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017
9 federal appellate · 7 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Faretta v. California · Nogueras v. Puerto Rico International Airlines, Inc. · Costarelli v. Massachusetts · People v. Massie · Commonwealth v. McKenna
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.
“the waiver rule cannot be exalted to a position so lofty as to require this Court to blind itself to the real issue—the propriety of allowing the state to conduct an illegal execution of a citizen.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a court may appoint counsel over an accused's objection in order to protect the public interest in the fairness and integrity of the proceedings.”
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.