Beard v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.2d 578 · 1940
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably Ahrens v. Clark (1948), Dorsey v. Gill (1945)
23 federal appellate ·
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 · Zerbst v. Kidwell · Davis v. Burke · Story v. Rives · Sanders v. Allen
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“designate as a place of confinement any available, suitable, and appropriate institution or facility, . . . whether within or without the judicial district in which the person was convicted, and (to) at any time transfer a person from one place of confinement to another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beck v. Wilkes
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.