King v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 8 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"We do not think that the United States Supreme Court has held that the constitutional right to counsel attaches prior to arrest. The guarantee has been gradually extended by that Court in the trilogy of recent cases — but not that far in our view: In Gideon (citation), it was held that the right to counsel is guaranteed at trial ; in Massiah (citation) it was held that the right of counsel is guaranteed between trial and indictment; and in Escobedo, it was held that the right to counsel is guaranteed between indictment and arrest." (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 188 So. 2d 320 - Williams v. State