Wong Doo v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
265 U.S. 239 · 1924
Citation profile
234 federal appellate · 6 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 440 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Rose v. Lundy (1982), Schlup v. Delo (1995)
234 federal appellate · 6 district · 72 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Salinger v. Loisel
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 440 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o reserve the proof for use in attempting to support a later petition, if the first failed, was to make an abusive use of the writ of habeas corpus.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“erred in applying the inflexible doctrine of res judicata”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the inflexible doctrine of res judicata " but rather on the exercise of "sound judicial discretion guided and controlled by a consideration of whatever has a rational bearing on the subject.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCleskey v. Zant · Schlup v. Delo
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.