Tuttle v. Lang’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1994 · most notably Ex parte United States (1916), Belden v. Hugo (1914)
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Ex Parte Nielsen · People Ex Rel. Forsyth v. . Court of Sessions · Commonwealth v. John Dowdican's Bail · Commonwealth v. Maloney · People ex rel. Boenert v. Barrett
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Habeas corpus is the proper remedy, when the process upon which the convict is held, was issued by a court having no jurisdiction of the case or person at the time of its issue. In re Hans Nielsen, 181 U. S. 176” Tuttle v. Lang, 100 Me. 123, 127 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. State
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.