Shack v. Attorney General’s Empirical Analysis
776 F.2d 1170 · 1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2010
5 federal appellate · 3 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 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 Hill v. United States · Frisbie v. Collins · Davis v. United States · United States v. Crews · Hullum v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the extraordinary sanction of a collateral attack on an otherwise valid criminal conviction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the existence of a procedural defect in [petitioner's] extradition proceedings did not impair [the state's] power to try him and ... his confinement does not violate due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Remeta v. Singletary“to assure that the prisoner transferred is the prisoner sought and trial in the receiving state reliably determines whether such is the fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooney v. Fulcomer
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.