Cloudies Shinall v. C. E. Breazeale, Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.2d 785 · 1968
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2003
13 federal appellate ·
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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Puyallup Tribe v. Department of Game · 251 F. Supp. 401 - White v. Crook · Irving v. Breazeale · 199 So. 2d 251 - Shinall v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is ... imperative that denial either of leave to file the petition, or ... of the writ itself, be accompanied by an expression of the reasons for the denial either by informal memorandum, by recitals in an order, or by findings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rudenko v. Costello
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.