Lee v. Swope’s Empirical Analysis
225 F.2d 674 · 1955
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably Otsuki v. Commissioner (1969), DiLeo v. Commissioner (1991)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on McNally v. Hill · McNealy v. Johnston · McDonald v. Johnston · Woollomes v. Heinze · Ex parte Melendez
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no warrant in either the statute or the writ for its use to invoke judicial determination of questions which could not affect the lawfulness of the custody and detention, and no suggestion of such a use has been found in the commentaries on the English common law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Rios
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.