Cranor v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
226 F.2d 83 · 1955
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1980 · most notably Townsend v. Sain (1963), Jurek v. Estelle (1980)
43 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Relies on Brown v. Allen · Stein v. People of State of New York Wissner · Watts v. Indiana · Malinski v. People of State of New York · Ashcraft v. State of Tennessee
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“District Judge must exercise his own judgment on [the] blend of facts and their legal values.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burwell Rogers · Lunce v. Overlade“But the prior State determination of a claim under the United States Constitution cannot foreclose consideration here of such a claim, else the State court would have the final say which the Congress, by the Act of 1867, provided it should not have. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pike v. Dickson“* * * the District Judge may accept their [the state court] determination in the State proceeding and deny the application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burwell Rogers
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.