Schafer v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
46 F.3d 43 · 1995
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Amaker v. Weiner (1999), Edgington v. Missouri Department of Corrections (1995)
18 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Heck v. Humphrey · Hishon v. King & Spalding · United States v. O'Brien · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Lee v. Brown
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the result would necessarily imply the invalidity of [their] continued confinement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bass v. Mitchell · Jones v. Moore“would necessarily imply the invalidity of his conviction or sentence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ladd v. Mitchell
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.