United States of America Ex Rel. James Morris Fletcher v. Joseph R. Brierley’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.2d 444 · 1972
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1991
1 federal appellate ·
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. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Douglas v. People of State of California · Sanders v. United States · Ratcliff v. Bruce · Presbyterian Church in the United States v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church · Gittlemacker v. Prasse
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]onventional notions of finality of litigation . . . where life or liberty is at stake and infringement of constitutional rights is alleged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCleskey v. Zant
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.