Church v. Missouri’s Empirical Analysis
913 F.3d 736 · 2019
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Kentucky v. Graham · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · Atascadero State Hospital v. Scanlon
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Like in Balogh , appointing members of the [Missouri State Public Defender] Commission is an administrative act. It does not give the governor some connection to the State's Sixth Amendment obligation [to provide indigent defendants with adequate counsel].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in an administrative or ministerial sense”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“act must be legislative 'in substance,' bearing 'all the hallmarks of traditional legislation,' and 'in form,' involving 'integral steps in the legislative process.'”
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.