Sharpe v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
317 U.S. 238 · 1942
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2013 · most notably Osborn v. Shillinger (1988), Schwartzmiller v. Gardner (1984)
50 federal appellate · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSharpe v. Buchanan (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Sharpe v. Commonwealth · Sharpe v. Commonwealth · Sharpe v. Buchanan · Sharpe v. Buchanan
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)t thus appears that this obstacle to a consideration of the merits of petitioner's application, which the circuit court of appeals encountered, has now been removed.”
2 later decisions 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.