Lopez v. Swope’s Empirical Analysis
205 F.2d 8 · 1953
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 753 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on McNally v. Hill · United States v. Brown · Crow v. United States · Aderhold v. Soileau · Godwin v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“He overlooks the fact that a man confined * * * under sentences * * * which might conceivably be open to attack on the ground of invalidity, may not test the propriety or validity of his confinement under such sentences by assaulting a prison employee and/or making a forcible escape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. People“A writ of habeas corpus will issue only for the purpose of determining the legality of present detention and its illegality is not shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. People
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.