Sanno v. Preiser’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
July 1985
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Snowden v. Hughes · Simpson v. United States · Nebraska v. Iowa · United States ex rel. Johnson v. Chairman of New York State Board of Parole · Divine v. Amato
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Constitution does not assure uniformity of decisions or immunity from merely erroneous action, whether by the courts or the executive agencies of a state.” Snowden v. Hughes, 321 U.S. 1, 15 , 64 S.Ct. 397, 404 , 88 L.Ed.2d 497 (1944) (Frankfurter, J., concurring).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martino v. Gard
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.