Keenan v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 127 · 1980
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Richardson v. Fleming (1981), Robinson v. Wade (1982)
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · Johnson v. Hardy
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) An application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court shall not be granted unless it appears that the applicant has exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the State, or that there is either an absence of available State corrective process or the existence of circumstances rendering such process ineffective to protect the rights of the prisoner. (c) An applicant shall not be deemed to have exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the State, within the meaning of this section, if he has the right under the law of the State to raise, by any available procedure, the question presented.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“habeas corpus, with its attendant exhaustion requirement, is the exclusive initial cause of action where the basis of the plaintiff’s claim goes to the fact or duration of his confinement, whereas challenges to conditions of confinement may proceed under section 1983 without any requirement of exhaustion of state judicial remedies. We further hold that courts should be governed by these classifications irrespective of the relief sought or the label placed by the petitioner upon such action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ringenberg v. Cox
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.