Strait v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
165 federal appellate · 44 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 350 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky (1973), Hensley v. Municipal Court, San Jose-Milpitas Judicial Dist., Santa Clara Cty. (1973)
165 federal appellate · 44 district · 11 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
reviewedStrait v. Laird (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · McGee v. International Life Insurance · Carafas v. J · Jones v. Cunningham · Orloff v. Willoughby
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 350 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he concepts of 'custody' and 'custodian' are sufficiently broad to allow us to say that the commanding officer in Indiana, operating through officers in California in processing petitioner's claim, is in California for the limited purposes of habeas corpus jurisdiction.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“nominal custodian [in Indiana] ... has enlisted the aid and directed the activities of armed forces personnel in California in his dealings with Strait.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The jurisdictional defect in Schlanger, however, was not merely the physical absence of the [nominal] Commander . . . but the total lack of formal contacts between Schlanger and the military in that district.”
3 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.