Hunter v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
173 F.2d 810 · 1949
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1985 · most notably Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois (1978), United States of America Ex Rel. Willie Seals, Jr. v. Martin J. Wiman, Warden, Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama (1962)
18 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 451
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Mayer · United States v. Mayer · Fisher ex rel. Barcelon v. Baker · Thomas v. Hunter
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appeals are governed by these rules, but they are not applicable otherwise than on appeal except to the extent that the practice in such proceedings is not set forth in statutes of the United States and has heretofore conformed to the practice in actions at law or suits in equity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abel v. Tinsley
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.