Frank Leslie Dodge v. James v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
335 F.2d 657 · 1964
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Leyvas v. United States (1967), United States v. Mendoza (1978)
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 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 Coppedge v. United States · Gilliam v. United States · Fallen v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from the delay of the prison authorities in mailing what otherwise would have been a [prisoner's] timely request for reduction of sentence.”
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.