Pyle v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.2d 869 · 1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1966
3 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.
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 264
Relies on 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Bowen v. Johnston · Knewel v. Egan · Coy · Goto v. Lane
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be well to state that the great writ of habeas corpus is not intended as a swinging gate of jail delivery whose latch may be tripped by every fine technicality.” Pyle v. Johnston, 137 F.2d 869, 870 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.