Cole v. Langlois’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably State v. Mendes (1965), Bishop v. Langlois (1969)
2 district · 42 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Fay v. Noia · Kercheval v. United States · Moore v. State of Michigan · United States v. Swaggerty
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The classic definition of waiver enunciated in Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 464 , 58 S.Ct. 1019, 1023 , 82 L. Ed. 1461,`an intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege' furnishes the controlling standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lemme v. Langlois““ * * * such a plea will be vacated when it is shown to have been obtained from a defendant unaware and uninformed as to its nature and its effect as a waiver of his fundamental rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alessio v. Howard
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.