Iasigi v. Van De Carr’s Empirical Analysis
166 U.S. 391 · 1897
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1984 · most notably McNally v. Hill (1934), United States Bilokumsky v. Tod (1923)
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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 Royall · Nishimura Ekiu v. United States · Ex Parte Milligan · Ex Parte Tobias Watkins · Cook v. Hart
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A writ of habeas corpus is not like an action to recover damages for an unlawful arrest or commitment, but its object is to ascertain whether the prisoner can lawfully be detained in custody; and if sufficient ground for his detention by the government is shown, he is not to be discharged for defects in the original arrest or commitment””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The object of the writ is to ascertain whether the prisoner applying for it can legally be detained, and it is the duty of the court, justice, or judge granting the writ, on hearing, ‘to dispose of the party as law and justice may require.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Low Kwai v. Backus
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.