Caristo v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Aycox v. Lytle (1999), State v. Frawley (2007)
48 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Fay v. Noia · Peyton v. Rowe · Jones v. Howard · Harris v. Nelson
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.
““[T]here is no higher duty of a court, under our constitutional system, than the careful processing and adjudication of petitions for writs of habeas corpus. . . .” Harris v. Nelson, 394 U.S. 286, 292 (1969). Because the writ of habeas corpus protects our most basic right of freedom from illegal restraint on personal liberty, the writ must be construed to afford ‘“a swift and imperative remedy in all cases of illegal restraint or confinement,’” Fay v. Noia, 372 U.S. 391, 400 (1963) (quoting Secretary of State for Home Affairs v. O’Brien, 1923 App. Cas. 603, 609), and therefore requires “prompt adjudication of the validity of the challenged restraint,” Peyton v. Rowe, 391 U.S. 54, 59 (1968) (emphasis in original). “The writ of habeas corpus, challenging illegality of detention, is reduced to a sham if the trial courts do not act within a reasonable time.” Jones v. Shell, 572 F.2d 1278, 1280 (8th Cir. 1978).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.