Walker v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
109 F.2d 436 · 1940
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1972
6 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 454 · 28 U.S.C. § 461
Relies on 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Medley · Zahn v. Hudspeth · Harpin v. Johnston
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall forthwith award a writ of habeas corpus, unless it appears from the petition itself that the party is not entitled thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Johnston
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.