Sharpe v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2003 · most notably Anderson v. Buchanan (1943), Sharpe v. Buchanan (1942)
6 federal appellate · 13 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 Smith v. Buchanan · Sharpe v. Commonwealth · Wellington v. Commonwealth · Greer v. Commonwealth · Ex parte Sharpe
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it be finally determined by the Federal Courts that due process of law demands that judicial process be available to one seeking relief on this ground, it seems advisable that judicial process other than habeas corpus be made available. With the solution of this problem we are not now immediately concerned. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Buchanan
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.