Anderson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
432 F.2d 55 · 1970
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Fay v. Noia · United States v. Southwestern Cable Co. · Ralph Jerome Selz v. The State of California, Richard A. McGee Director, Department of Corrections · Piche v. Rhay
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the fundamental liberties of the person are claimed to have been infringed, we carefully scrutinize the state-court record. * * * The duty of the Federal District Court on habeas is no less exacting.”
1 later decision 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.