James Earl McGee v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
625 F.2d 1206 · 1980
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2008
8 federal appellate · 4 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to counsel attaches only at or after the time adversary judicial proceedings have been initiated against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an adversary criminal proceeding has not begun in a case where the prosecution officers are unaware of either the charges or the arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he initiation of judicial criminal proceedings is far from a mere formalism.”
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.