Jones v. Shell’s Empirical Analysis
572 F.2d 1278 · 1978
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Smith V. Secretary of New Mexico Department of Corrections (1995), Johnson v. Rogers (1990)
12 federal appellate · 2 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 Fay v. Noia · Mucie v. Missouri State Department of Corrections · Clock v. Mo-Kan-Tx Rr Co · Jones v. Mabry
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he writ of habeas corpus, challenging illegality of detention, ... reduced to a sham if the trial courts (did) not act within a reasonable time ... especially ... upon remand of a pending petition from (the appeals court).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Busy court dockets cannot justify a 14-month delay in processing this claim from the date of remand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simpson v. Ortiz“a swift and imperative remedy in all cases of illegal restraint or confinement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hale v. Al Lockhart
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.