Pacileo v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2006 · most notably Alabama v. Battles (1981), Hooks v. Hooks (1985)
17 federal appellate · 33 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Michigan v. Doran · Sweeney v. Woodall · United States v. Morrison
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A governor’s grant of extradition is prima facie evidence that the constitutional and statutory requirements have been met. ... Once the governor has granted extradition, a court considering release on habeas corpus can do no more than decide (a) whether the extradition documents on their face are in order; (b) whether the petitioner has been charged with a crime in the demanding state; (c) whether the petitioner is the person named in the request for extradition; and (d) whether the petitioner is a fugitive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pfaff v. Wells · Alabama v. Battles“claims as to constitutional defects in the Arkansas penal system should be heard in the courts of Arkansas, not those of California.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To allow plenary review in the asylum state of issues that can be fully litigated in the charging state would defeat the plain purposes of the summary and mandatory procedures authorized by Art. IV, Sec. 2”
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.