Newell v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that petitioner’s election to forgo an attorney was not a knowing and understanding waiver when the petitioner did not know whether an indigent person charged with a misdemeanor in Maine had a right to appointment of counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Scott v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-05· cited 1,061×
• Commonwealth v. Sheehan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 80×
• Lang v. Murch
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1981-12-31· cited 37×
• State v. Sklar
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1974-03-21· cited 31×
• State v. Cook
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1998-02-27· cited 20×
• State v. Dowd
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1984-06-04· cited 14×
• State v. Day
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1972-07-14· cited 14×
• Application of Wright
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1971-09-03· cited 5×
• Roberts v. Janco
  N.D. West Virginia· 1971-12-22· cited 3×
• State of Maine v. Derric McLain
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2025-08-29

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• Betts v. Brady
  Supreme Court· 1942-06-01· cited 1,154×
• In Re Johnson
  California Supreme Court· 1965-01-28· cited 225×
• Evans v. Rives
  D.C. Circuit· 1942-02-21· cited 80×
• Julia Mae McDonald v. S. H. Moore, as Sheriff of Madison County, Florida
  Fifth Circuit· 1965-11-24· cited 75×
• DeJoseph v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1966-12-05· cited 54×
• People v. Witenski
  New York Court of Appeals· 1965-04-22· cited 52×
• Winters v. Beck, Penal Farm Superintendent
  Supreme Court· 1966-12-05· cited 49×
• Bolkovac v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1951-04-19· cited 49×
• Application of Stevenson
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1969-09-10· cited 45×
• State Ex Rel. Argersinger v. Hamlin
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1970-06-03· cited 40×
• Hendrix v. City of Seattle
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-06-05· cited 35×
• Swann v. Adams
  Supreme Court· 1966-11-14· cited 35×
• Wright v. Denato
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1970-06-23· cited 30×
• State Ex Rel. Plutshack v. Department of Health & Social Services
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1968-02-02· cited 24×
• Captain Henry Beck, Superintendent of the Pulaski County Penal Farm and Clint Cavin, Surety v. Robert Winters
  Eighth Circuit· 1969-06-16· cited 16×
• Hunter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1955-09-27· cited 16×
• Cortinez v. Flournoy
  Supreme Court· 1966-11-07· cited 12×