Flick v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
174 F.2d 983 · 1949
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2011
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 451
Relies on Ahrens v. Clark · Sanders v. Allen · Sanders v. Bennett · Eisentrager v. Forrestal · McGowan v. Moody
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no court of this country has power or authority to review, affirm, set aside or annul the judgment and sentence imposed on Flick.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.