Coleman v. Smyth’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brown v. Allen · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Moore v. State of Michigan · Harlan v. McGourin · Thomas v. Arizona
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“manifest abuse of the habeas corpus process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coleman v. Smyth
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.