Johnson v. Moran’s Empirical Analysis
812 F.2d 23 · 1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2001
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Preiser v. Rodriguez · Stone v. Powell · Arthur J. Nathaniel v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections · Larsen v. Illinois · Thompson v. North Carolina
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the traditional meaning and purpose of habeas corpus [is] to effect release from illegal custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lefkowitz v. Fair
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.