United States of America Ex Rel. Harry Gordon Geach v. Joseph E. Ragen, Warden, Illinois State Penitentiary’s Empirical Analysis
231 F.2d 455 · 1956
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1990
10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · Ex parte Farrell · Van Buskirk v. Wilkinson · Jarecki v. Whetstone · Green v. Green
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The application to one of the judges of this Court * * * for a certificate of probable cause, being made after the thirty day appeal period, was made too late. This Court is without power to grant the application, even if it were otherwise thought that there had been probable cause for the appeal.”
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.