Dixon v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
427 F.2d 589 · 1970
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 12 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2000 · most notably Foucha v. Louisiana (1992), Jones v. United States (1983)
71 federal appellate · 12 district · 24 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Fay v. Noia · Sanders v. United States · Price v. Johnston · Johnson v. Avery
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The likelihood of future misconduct, the type of misconduct to be expected, and its probable frequency”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“is no longer likely to injure himself or other persons because of mental illness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“already unhappily manifested the reality of anti-social conduct,”
2 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.