Pendleton v. Scully’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2006
2 federal appellate ·
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 Strickland v. Washington · Boykin v. Alabama · Hill v. Lockhart · Brady v. United States · Murray v. Carrier
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by pleading guilty he would be waiving the right to a jury trial, the privilege against self-incrimination and the right to confront his accusers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hanson v. Phillips
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.