Graham v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Egan v. United States (1923), Scannell v. Ed. Ferreirinha & Irmao, Lda. (1987)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 People Ex Rel. Trainor v. Baker
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is undoubtedly the general rule that a judgment rendered by a court in a criminal case must conform strictly to the statute, and that any variation from its provisions, either in the character or the extent of punishment inflicted, renders the judgment absolutely void.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That the prisoner should not have been sentenced for any. time in excess of ten years is very evident. When the ten years have expired it is probable the court will order the prisoner’s discharge, but until then he had no right to ask the annulment of the entire judgment. Such being the ruling of the state court, and there being nothing in it repugnant to any principle of natural justice, we think that the reason given for a refusal of the writ of habeas corpus in the court below at the present time was a sound one.””
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.