Powell v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.2d 330 · 1949
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 1980 · most notably Bethea v. Crouse (1969), Miller v. Overholser (1953)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 710
Relies on Platek v. Aderhold · Pagliaro v. Cox · Morgan v. Aderhold · Griffin v. Zerbst · In re Terrill
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The prison system is under the administration of the Attorney General, * * * and not of the district courts. The court has no power to interfere with the conduct of the prison or its discipline.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ragan v. Madigan · McNeal v. Taylor
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.