Carafas v. J’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1,366 federal appellate · 166 district · 369 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,986 later decisions (99 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), Chambers v. Maroney (1970)
1,366 federal appellate · 166 district · 369 state decisions — followed in 40 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 29 U.S.C. § 504
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Linkletter v. Walker · United State v. Morgan · Ginsberg v. New York
Cited together with Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Jones v. Cunningham · Peyton v. Rowe · Hensley v. Municipal Court, San Jose-Milpitas Judicial Dist., Santa Clara Cty. · Maleng v. Cook
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 2,986 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a substantial stake in the judgment of conviction which survives the satisfaction of the sentences imposed on him.'”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“once the federal jurisdiction has attached in the District Court, it is not defeated by the release of the petitioner prior to completion of proceedings on such application.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“dispose of the matter as law and justice require.”
17 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.