Hart v. Best’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1996 · most notably Stilley v. Tinsley (1963), Righi v. People (1961)
27 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 Bowen v. Johnston · In re Bonner · Riddle v. Dyche · Woolsey v. Best · In re Eckart
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a settled rule that wherever a court has acquired jurisdiction of a case, no other court may, upon habeas corpus, interfere with its action as to matters concerning which it has acquired jurisdiction. Any other rule would produce a conflict of jurisdiction over the right to the custody of the person of the prisoner and lead to inextricable confusion, resulting in a defeat of the due administration of the law. * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zimmerman v. Angele“Here we are presented with a situation where the district court of Fremont county and that court in Prowers county are courts of equal authority and dignity; they are coordinate; neither has the power or authority to consider the validity or set aside the judicial acts of the other. Neither has, as related to the other, appellate jurisdiction; that jurisdiction is vested in our court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * So where one court has obtained jurisdiction of a case no other court of concurrent jurisdiction will interfere therewith; and when the jurisdiction of a court is exclusive [as in this case], the law applies with still greater force; for then no other court will take jurisdiction at all to interfere with or interrupt its proceedings preliminary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zimmerman v. Angele
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.