Bates v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
267 F.2d 779 · 1959
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2025
9 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 Ex parte Karstendick · Aderhold v. Lee · Hayman v. United States · 71 F. Supp. 865 - Johnson v. Hiatt
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has long been established that military prisoners may properly be confined in federal institutions and when so confined are subject to all laws pertaining to federal prisoners to the same extent as though the conviction had been by civil court, even though the system of parole and the computation of credits for ‘good conduct time’ are harsher or different for prisoners confined in disciplinary barracks.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sunday v. Settle
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.