Woolsey v. Best’s Empirical Analysis
299 U.S. 1 · 1936
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 12 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2012 · most notably Johnson v. Zerbst (1938), Yakus v. United States (1944)
72 federal appellate · 12 district · 18 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 Knewel v. Egan · Harlan v. McGourin · Craig v. Hecht · Riddle v. Dyche
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“writ of habeas corpus cannot be used as a writ of error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Zerbst
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.