Roberts v. LaVallee

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that state court must provide indigent defendant with his preliminary hearing transcript
• granting habeas relief for refusal of state to provide indigent defendant with free transcript of preliminary hearing
• finding “Congress had not intended to require repetitious applications to state courts”
• finding presumptive value in trial transcripts over the dissent of Justice Harlan, who argued “at no time has petitioner suggested any use to which the preliminary hearing transcript could have been put, although he is in a position to know what it contains”
• concurrent second coram nobis proceeding on distinct claim is not basis to decline federal habeas jurisdiction
• indigent entitled to free transcript of preliminary hearing for use at trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

309 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Rose v. Lundy
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-08· cited 5,808×
• Picard v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,124×
• Bounds v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1977-04-27· cited 4,812×
• San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court· 1973-04-23· cited 3,699×
• Boddie v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1971-03-02· cited 3,052×
• Bearden v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-24· cited 1,941×
• WILWORDING Et Al. v. SWENSON, WARDEN
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-14· cited 770×
• Britt v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-13· cited 727×
• Moore v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1977-12-12· cited 676×
• Duckworth v. Serrano
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-19· cited 674×
• United States v. MacCollom
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-10· cited 635×
• Serrano v. Priest
  California Supreme Court· 1971-08-30· cited 593×
• Mayer v. City of Chicago
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-13· cited 487×
• Donald Harris v. Clarice Stovall
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-05-18· cited 400×
• United States v. Willie Decoster, Jr., (Decoster Iii)
  D.C. Circuit· 1979-07-10· cited 324×
• Adams v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-06· cited 312×
• Gennero Galtieri v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, John Matera v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-10-23· cited 215×
• Hammond v. Lenfest
  Second Circuit· 1968-06-10· cited 204×
• In Re Antazo
  California Supreme Court· 1970-09-03· cited 193×
• Cargle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1995-12-22· cited 189×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Brown v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1953-02-09· cited 2,465×
• Draper v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 654×
• Smith v. Bennett
  Supreme Court· 1961-04-17· cited 488×
• Long v. District Court of Iowa, Lee Cty.
  Supreme Court· 1966-12-05· cited 196×
• People v. Montgomery
  New York Court of Appeals· 1966-12-30· cited 31×