Eagles Nj v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
329 U.S. 304 · 1946
Citation profile
182 federal appellate · 27 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 432 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Fay v. Noia (1963), Brown v. Allen (1953)
182 federal appellate · 27 district · 24 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
reviewedUnited States ex rel. Samuels v. Pearson (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · McNabb v. United States · Estep v. United States · McNally v. Hill · Walker v. Johnston
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 432 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our rules recognize the beneficient function of the writ ... by providing that a prisoner to whom the writ has been granted may, pending appeal, be enlarged on a recognizance .... The fact that he has been so enlarged does not render the appeal of the custodian moot. In such a case the release is obtained through the assertion of judicial power. It is the propriety of the exercise of that power which is in issue in the appellate court, whether the prisoner is discharged or remanded to custody. Though the writ has been granted and the prisoner released, the appellate court by what it does is not rendering an opinion and issuing an order which cannot affect the litigants in the case before it.... Affirmance makes the prisoner's release final and unconditional. Reversal undoes what the habeas corpus court did and makes lawful a resumption of the custody.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Reversal undoes what the habeas corpus court did and makes lawful a resumption of custody.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If it cannot be said that there were procedural irregularities of such a nature or magnitude as to render the hearing unfair, (Case cited), or that there was no evidence to support the order, (Case cited), the inquiry is at an end.””
4 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.