Sabatier v. Dabrowski’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 866 · 1978
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Eain v. Wilkes (1981), Martin v. Warden, Atlanta Pen (1993)
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Sweet v. United States · J. Gordon Turnbull, Inc. v. Commissioner · Fernandez v. Phillips · Collins v. Miller
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only to inquire whether the magistrate had jurisdiction, whether the offense charged is within the treaty and, by a somewhat liberal extension, whether there was reasonable ground to believe the accused guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The hearing is merely to ascertain whether a treaty applies and whether the evidence of criminal conduct is sufficient to justify his extradition and trial by [the requesting] country. Since the executive branch is charged with the conduct of our foreign relations, the role of the judge or magistrate is only to ensure that this minimal showing has been made.”
1 later decision 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.