Murdock v. Pollock’s Empirical Analysis
229 F. 392 · 1915
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1960
16 federal appellate ·
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 Royall · 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Boardman v. Toffey · Erickson v. Hodges · In re Jordan
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As this return is precisely the same that the superintendent would make if the writ of habeas corpus had been served on him, the court here can determine the right of the prisoners to he released on this rule to show cause, as correctly and with more convenience in the administration of justice, than if the prisoners were present under the writ in the custody of the superintendent; and such is the practice of this court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foster v. Biddle
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.