Port v. Heard’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 423 · 1985
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably State v. Perez (2009), Commonwealth v. Stewart (1997)
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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. § 6002 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Roe v. Wade · United States v. Nixon · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall entertain an application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court only on the ground that he is in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Had the petitioners [in Lane ] challenged the underlying convictions and requested an opportunity to replead, ... the cases would not have been moot.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in the context of this case, the state's interest in procuring every person's testimony for the thorough investigation of the crime of homicide outweighs the Ports' First Amendment claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.