Fitzsimmons v. Yeager’s Empirical Analysis
391 F.2d 849 · 1968
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 21 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois (1978), McMillan v. Barksdale (1987)
44 federal appellate · 21 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 Fay v. Noia · United States v. Robinson · Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Henry v. State of Mississippi · Coppedge 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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so long as from its nature it evidences an intention to appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“On full reconsideration of the subject we have reached the following conclusions, which we set out as rules for the guidance of the bar and of prisoners acting pro se in habeas corpus cases where the detention complained of arises out of process issued by a state court: 11 ****** 12 * * * 13”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Klier v. Wainwright“A certificate of probable cause may be applied for informally, and a paper will be deemed an application for a certificate of probable cause regardless of its form or how it is entitled if its contents disclose the purpose to obtain a certificate of probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Klier v. Wainwright
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.