Docken v. Chase’s Empirical Analysis
393 F.3d 1024 · 2004
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Woodall v. Federal Bureau of Prisons (2005), Benchoff v. Colleran (2005)
19 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Heck v. Humphrey · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Assn.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a state prisoner is challenging the very fact or duration of his physical imprisonment, and the relief he seeks is a determination that he is entitled to immediate release or a speedier release from that imprisonment, his sole federal remedy is a writ of habeas corpus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the extent to which § 1983 is a permissible alternative to the traditional remedy of habeas corpus.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless the plaintiff can demonstrate that the conviction or sentence has already been invalidated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.