Johnson v. Zerbst’s Empirical Analysis
92 F.2d 748 · 1937
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1962
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Goto v. Lane · Riddle v. Dyche · 13 F. Supp. 253 - Bridwell v. Aderhold · Downer v. Dunaway
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining Witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Zerbst
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.