Knewel v. Egan’s Empirical Analysis
268 U.S. 442 · 1925
Citation profile
304 federal appellate · 23 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 561 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Johnson v. Zerbst (1938), Fay v. Noia (1963)
304 federal appellate · 23 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
Relationships
Relies on Royall · Frank v. Mangum · 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Ex Parte Tobias Watkins
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 561 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * It has been uniformly held by this court that the sufficiency of an indictment cannot be reviewed in habeas corpus proceedings.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the judgment of state courts in criminal cases will not be reviewed on habeas corpus merely because some right under the Constitution of the United States is alleged to have been denied to the person convicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Calley v. Callaway“is restrained of his liberty by judgment of a court acting without jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Calley v. Callaway
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.