Johnson v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2014
3 federal appellate · 18 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 Simmons v. Georgia Iron & Coal Co. · Crovatt v. Mason · Erwin v. Moore · Plunkett v. Hamilton · Western & Atlantic Railroad v. City of Atlanta
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Civil Practice Act applies to habeas corpus proceedings insofar as questions arise therein regarding the sufficiency of pleadings, the admissibility of evidence under the petition as drawn, amendments, and those other elements of pleading and practice enumerated in § 81 of the Act as amended.” Johnson v. Caldwell, 229 Ga. 548, 552 ( 192 SE2d 900 ) (1972).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it was the intent of the legislature . . . to make the remedy more readily available to prisoners resorting to the Georgia courts and to facilitate a determination in each case . . . of the legality or illegality of the imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Thomas
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.