Council v. Clemmer’s Empirical Analysis
165 F.2d 249 · 1947
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2000
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Bowen v. Johnston · Holiday v. Johnston · John McNamara v. William Henkel · Dorsey v. Gill
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the limitations upon the remedy afforded by habeas corpus should be flexible and readily available to prevent manifest injustice, for, as Mr. Justice Black has expressed it, the principles judicially established for the delimitation of habeas corpus action “must be construed and applied so as to preserve — not destroy — constitutional safeguards of human life and liberty.” Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 465 , 58 S.Ct. 1019, 1023 , 82 L.Ed. 1461 ....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State · Coffelt v. State
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.