Nathan Thomas v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary’s Empirical Analysis
335 F.2d 67 · 1964
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2013 · most notably Carafas v. J (1968), Rowe v. Peyton (1967)
31 federal appellate · 1 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 Fay v. Noia · United State v. Morgan · Jones v. Cunningham · Darr v. Burford · Frisbie v. Collins
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Furthermore, every preceding term was a factor in the detention under every succeeding one, because Thomas was held not only for service of the current term but as well to satisfy the subsequent terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rowe v. Peyton
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.