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Otis Loper v. O. B. Ellis, General Manager, Texas Prison System’s Empirical Analysis

224 F.2d 901 · 1955

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
January 1986
most recently cited

14 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1986

14 federal appellate ·

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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. § 1073 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2242 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Price v. Johnston · Betts v. Brady · House v. Mayo · Fiamengo v. San Francisco · Harris v. Ellis

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.

  1. “To the Honorable Judges: Court of Criminal Appeals; State of Texas.”
    1 later decision 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.