Ex Parte Pickens’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2000
3 federal appellate · 3 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 Weems v. United States · Medley · 50 Cal. App. 797 - In Re Rider · 62 Cal. App. 697 - In Re Snyder · Howard v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the place is not fit for human habitation and to crowd into this room so many prisoners at once well justifies the comment of representatives of the health service of the Federal Government who referred to it as a `fabulous obscenity' "); see also, Miller v. French, U.S., 120 S.Ct. 2246, 2262-64, L.Ed.2d (U.S. June 19, 2000) (Breyer, J., dissenting) (detailing history of litigation aimed at improving "barbaric and shocking”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.