Walter Ashe v. Luther D. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
450 F.2d 681 · 1971
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 1994 · most notably Bethea v. United States (1976), United States v. Ecker (1976)
16 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2242 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Golden v. Zwickler · Moore v. Ogilvie · Bolton v. Harris · James Covington v. David W. Harris
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the least restrictive alternative consistent with the legitimate purposes of a commitment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“demonstrating both that his remedy is proper and that the merits of his claim so clearly warrant relief as to justify expedited action.”
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.