Waley v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
124 F.2d 587 · 1941
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1965
5 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Brown v. State of Mississippi · Chambers v. Florida · Walker v. Johnston · Bowen 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“waived the defense and the constitutional right, if any he had, and cannot assert it now on habeas corpus proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waley 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.