William B. Sullivan v. Fred R. Dickson, Warden, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
283 F.2d 725 · 1960
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2013
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
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 People v. Sullivan · United States of America Ex Rel. Sullivan v. Robert A. Heinze, Warden, Folsom Prison · People v. Sullivan · The United States of America Ex Rel. William B. Sullivan v. Robert A. Heinze, Warden, Folsom Prison, Represa, California
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no mechanism in federal civil procedure by which the relief requested, inspection, can be granted in the absence of a pending proceeding.”
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.