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Price v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis

159 F.2d 234 · 1947

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
November 2004
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2004

9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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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 28 U.S.C. § 377

Relies on Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Frank v. Mangum · Walker v. Johnston · Tom Tong · Ex Parte Bollman and Ex Parte Swartwout

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the widespread abuse of the writ . . . , not to mention the items of fruitless burden and expense. To the legitimate hope of release by legal means would be added inducements not so legitimate; for temporary relief from prison confinement is always an alluring prospect, and to the hardened criminal the possibility of escape lurks in every excursion beyond prison walls.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Price v. Johnston
  2. “the Supreme Court, the circuit courts of appeals, and the district courts shall have power to issue all writs not specifically provided for by statute,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Price v. Johnston
  3. “plead and manage their own causes personally.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Price 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.