Norman G. Bernier v. Robert J. Moore, Superintendent, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
441 F.2d 395 · 1971
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2009
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Relies on Sanders v. United States · MacHibroda v. United States · Commonwealth v. Bernier · Lucien M. Aubut v. State of Maine
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gross impropriety or prejudicial misconduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[H]abeas corpus is a special proceeding to right wrongs, not a routine procedure to search for them____ With respect to this same problem, Justice Jackson once observed that “he who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.””
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.