White v. Rickets’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2025
14 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 Rosenblatt v. Baer · Baum v. City and County of Denver · Gramiger v. Crowley · Allen v. First National Bank · Berry v. State Board of Parole
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) If it appears that the prisoner is in custody by virtue of process from any court legally constituted, he can be discharged only for some of the following causes: (a) Where the court has exceeded the limit of its jurisdiction, either as to the matter, place, sum, or person; (b) Where, though the original imprisonment was lawful, yet by some act, omission, or event which has subsequently taken place, the party has become entitled to his discharge; (c) Where the process is defective in some substantial form required by law; (d) Where the process, though in proper form, has been issued in a case or under circumstances where the law does not allow process or orders for imprisonment or arrest to issue; (e) Where, although in proper form, the process has been issued or executed by a person either unauthorized to issue or execute the same or where the person having the custody of the prisoner under such process is not the person empowered by law to detain him; (f) Where the process appears to have been obtained by false pretense or bribery; (g) Where there is no general law, nor any judgment, order, or decree of a court to authorize the process, if in a civil suit, nor any conviction if in a criminal proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Reece v. Johnson · Marshall v. Kort“carefully defines the circumstances under which the relief authorized thereby may be granted. The intervention by the judiciary ... is reserved for [the] most serious violations of fundamental rights . ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The board is authorized and it is its duty to order the transfer of any person committed pursuant to section 16-18-2083, if the board deems it to be in the best interests of said person and the public, to any facility under the, jurisdiction of the department or to the department of human services subject to the availability of staff and housing. (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Van Pelt
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.