McCollum v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
695 F.2d 1044 · 1982
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Whitford v. Boglino (1995), Sanchez v. Miller (1986)
71 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Wolff v. McDonnell · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Hewitt v. Helms · Carafas v. J
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“confidential sources had proved reliable in the past ....”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“habeas corpus can be used to get from a more to a less restrictive custody,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have no reason to believe that his counsel would give Ramirez-Rodriguez the names of the informants, or information from which those names could be deduced, but we do not know whether it would be safe to allow inmate's counsel access to such reports as a general rule and we do not think the courts or prison officials should try to decide which lawyers are trustworthy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howard v. State · Mendoza v. Miller
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.