Vail v. Procunier’s Empirical Analysis
747 F.2d 277 · 1984
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2001 · most notably Trevino v. Johnson (1999), Nichols v. Scott (1995)
13 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
Relies on Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission · Nathaniel Williams v. State of Missouri · United States v. Phenix · Fabian v. Reed
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nfirmities in state habeas corpus proceedings do not constitute grounds for federal habeas relief”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trevino v. Johnson
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.