Sanders v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.2d 19 · 1945
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2006 · most notably Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense v. Padilla et al. (2004), Ahrens v. Clark (1948)
40 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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 Sanders v. Allen · Jones v. Biddle · McGowan v. Moody · Laughlin v. Bennett
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For that reason, the proper person to be served in the ordinary case is the warden of the penitentiary in which the prisoner is confined rather than an official in Washington, D.C., who supervises the warden. An interpretation which would permit resort to the courts in the District of Columbia for writs of habeas corpus by prisoners in federal institutions all over the United States is without justification either in convenience or logic.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a practical one based on common sense administration of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether a court in the District of Columbia has jurisdiction to issue a writ of habeas corpus against the Attorney General of the United States or his representative on petition of a federal prisoner confined outside the District of Columbia,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.