In re Barker’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1964
5 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 Knowlton v. Baker
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The general principles of law are opposed to the allowance of exceptions in this ease. The great purpose of the writ of habeas corpus is the immediate delivery of the party deprived of personal liberty. The allowance of exceptions would be inconsistent with the object of the writ. The consequence of allowing exceptions must be, either that all further proceedings be stayed, which would-be wholly inconsistent with the purpose of the writ. 1 * * * »”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . and the whole course of legislation and judicial exposition in America, discloses the most zealous anxiety to make the writ a quick and summary procedure for relief from imprisonment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Fitts
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.