Mays v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.2d 1258 · 1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2001
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Argersinger v. Hamlin · Walker v. City of Birmingham · Whorley v. Commonwealth
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The petitioner] can test his adjudication as an habitual offender, but he cannot with impunity choose to ignore the adju dication and resulting injunction for ... in the fair administration of justice no man can be judge in his own case. To permit one who has been adjudged an habitual offender to disregard his status, however vulnerable, and later defend any conviction for doing so by asserting the invalidity of his underlying convictions is to allow him to judge his own case. That he may not do.”
4 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.