Bemis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.3d 220 · 1994
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2019
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Santobello v. New York · Blackledge v. Allison · Brewster v. Derwinski · Mabry v. Johnson · Calder v. Job
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he crucial question is not whether the Government had the authority to carry out the promise which [petitioner] claims he understood it to make, but whether it did in fact make such a promise,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“courts on occasion have specifically enforced promises that would encroach on the jurisdiction of independent entities. See, e.g., Palermo v. Warden, 545 F.2d 286, 296 (2d Cir.1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“habeas corpus provides an appropriate procedural vehicle for advancing”
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.