Dixon v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
741 F.2d 121 · 1984
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably O'Hara v. Wigginton (1994), Silverburg v. Evitts (1991)
21 federal appellate ·
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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Santobello v. New York · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Rose v. Lundy · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · WILWORDING Et Al. v. SWENSON, WARDEN
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“habeas corpus relief is the appropriate remedy for state prisoners attacking the validity of the fact or length of their confinement.”
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.