Alexander v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.2d 87 · 1979
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Williams v. Kullman (1983), United States v. Smith (1984)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2516 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Stone v. Powell · Hill v. United States · Blackledge v. Allison · MacHibroda v. United States · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If there is a difference in these expressions I suspect that it is of no significance. In most of these cases relief is denied. Certainly, if a matter is frivolous, it is clearly without probable cause. Thus, the cases which speak of frivolity, such as those from our own circuit, would arrive at the same conclusion on a more substantive standard.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baldwin v. Blackburn“(i)f it plainly appears from the face of the petition and any exhibits annexed to it that the petitioner is not entitled to relief.”
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.