Wadsworth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
235 F.3d 959 · 2000
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2024
7 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 Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky · Freytag v. Commissioner · Francisco Lara v. Em Trominski Janet Reno US Francisco Lara-Resendez · United States ex rel. Sero v. Preiser · Royal v. Tombone
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]o long as the custodian can be reached by service of process, the court can issue a writ `within its jurisdiction' ... even if the prisoner himself is confined outside the court's territorial jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carmona v. Andrews“in the district court for the district wherein such person is in custody or in the district court for the district within which the State court was held which convicted and sentenced him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carmona v. Andrews“is a prisoner pursuant to a state court judgment and sentence. He is currently confined within that state, which has more than one federal judicial district.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carmona v. Andrews
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.