Crawford v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.2d 890 · 1979
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Church of Scientology of California v. United States Department of Army (1979), Franklin v. Murphy (1984)
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Lee Dodd v. Spokane County · Francis L. Harmon v. The Superior Court Of California
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he writ of habeas corpus is limited to attacks upon the legality or duration of confinement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kraft v. Gates · Griffin v. Gomez D“[a] court may choose not to exercise its jurisdiction when another court having jurisdiction over the same matter has entertained it and can achieve the same result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Krug v. Lutz Np · Krug v. Lutz“increasing calendar congestion in the federal courts makes it imperative to avoid concurrent litigation in more than one forum whenever consistent with the rights of the parties.” Judicial efficiency sometimes is best served by dismissal of the”
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.