Platek v. Aderhold’s Empirical Analysis
73 F.2d 173 · 1934
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 1969 · most notably Paul Rodger Weller v. Fred H. Dickson, Andrew Emmitte Pope v. Richard A. McGee (1963), Granville v. Hunt (1969)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 551 · 18 U.S.C. § 710
Relies on Anderson v. Corall · Ableman v. Booth · Covington & Cincinnati Bridge Co. v. Hager · Morgan v. Aderhold · Stockton v. Massey
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The court has no power to interfere with the conduct of the prison or its discipline, but only on habeas corpus to deliver from the prison those who are illegally detained there.””
2 later decisions 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.