Forthoffer v. Swope’s Empirical Analysis
103 F.2d 707 · 1939
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1985 · most notably Solesbee v. Balkcom (1950), Bishop v. United States (1955)
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 · Knewel v. Egan · Glasgow v. Moyer · Greene v. United States · United States ex rel. Demarois v. Farrell
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At common law habeas corpus would lie where the judgment, sentence, or order was fatally defective upon the face of the record; the writ could be invoked only where lack of jurisdiction patently appeared if the court was of general jurisdiction; and it could not be employed to retry the issues, whether of law, constitutional or other, or of fact. 29 C.J. § 46, p. 54; 29 C.J. § 20, p. 33; Zoline’s Fed. Crim. Law, Vol. 1, § 530, p. 435; Glasgow v. Moyer, [etc.], 225 U.S. 420 , 32 S.Ct. 753 , 56 L.Ed. 1147 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ashley v. Pescor
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.