Bleakley v. Smart’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1977
1 federal appellate · 11 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 Plowden Weston v. The City Council of Charleston · People Ex Rel. Lawrence v. . Brady · Cormack v. Marshall · State v. Baird · People ex rel. Green v. Court of Appeals
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principle of res judicata is also applicable to proceedings on habeas corpus, so far at least as they involve an inquiry into and a determination of the rights, of conflicting claimants to the custody of minor children.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bleakley v. Barclay““Great conflict of opinion exists upon the question whether a judgment in habeas corpus is appealable.” (p. 480.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Gordon
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.