Schlanger v. Seamans’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
223 federal appellate · 64 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 480 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky (1973), Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense v. Padilla et al. (2004)
223 federal appellate · 64 district · 15 state decisions
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJarrett v. Resor (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jones v. Cunningham · United States v. Hayman · Peyton v. Rowe · Harris v. Nelson · Kaufman 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 480 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“civil action in which each defendant is an officer or employee of the United States”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Hence even if we assume that petitioner is 'in custody' in Arizona in the sense that he is subject to military orders and control which act as a restraint on his freedom of movement (Jones v. Cunningham, 371 U.S. 236 , 240 [83 S.Ct. 373, 375, 376, 9 L.Ed.2d 285]), the absence of his custodian is fatal to the jurisdiction of the Arizona District Court. Cf. [United States ex rel.] Rudick v. Laird [2d Cir.] 412 F.2d 16 , 21. 6 "Had petitioner, at the time of the filing of the petition, been under the command of the Air Force officer assigned as liaison officer at Arizona State to supervise the Education and Commissioning Program, we would have a different question.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any custodian, or one in the chain of command, as well as the person detained, must be in the territorial jurisdiction of the District Court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stafford v. Briggs · Moore v. Olson
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.