Johnnie Clifford McDowell v. John T. Willingham, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
354 F.2d 232 · 1965
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1995
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 In re Disbarment of Gately · West Virginia ex rel. Sublett v. Adams · United States v. Taylor · United States v. McDowell · American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Kingham Trailer Co.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The matters of which he now complains have either been conclusively litigated in the Circuit of his conviction, or they are yet cognizable there. The remedy under § 2255 is not inadequate or ineffective simply because the petitioner did not succeed thereunder, or even though it was erroneously withheld.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDowell v. Moseley
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.