Hudson v. Rushen’s Empirical Analysis
686 F.2d 826 · 1982
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Frazer v. United States (1994), 30 Cal. 4th 581 - People v. Smith (2003)
72 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Rose v. Lundy · Douglas v. People of State of California · Picard v. Connor · Illinois v. Allen
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that it resulted in a total lack of communication preventing an adequate defense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as might ease the defendant's dissatisfaction, distrust, and concern.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he state trial court's summary denial of a defendant's motion for new counsel without further inquiry violate[s] the Sixth Amendment.”
3 later decisions 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.