Hill v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
737 F.2d 950 · 1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2019
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Fernandez v. Phillips
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.
“The scope of habeas corpus review of a magistrate’s order is quite narrow. It is limited to a determination of “whether the magistrate had jurisdiction, whether the offense charged is within the treaty and ... whether there was any evidence warranting the finding that there was reasonable ground-to believe the accused guilty.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the warrant may specify all the charges if the requesting country so chooses, but it need refer to only one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Koskotas v. Roche“scope of habeas corpus review of a magistrate's order of extradition is quite narrow.”
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.