Joseph Wilson v. Charles C. Foti’s Empirical Analysis
832 F.2d 891 · 1987
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2004
5 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. § 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Engle v. Isaac · United States v. S.A. Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · 414 So. 2d 666 - State v. Wimberly
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the appropriate cause of action is a petition for habeas corpus, even though the facts of the complaint might otherwise be sufficient to state a claim under § 1983.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gartrell v. Gaylor
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.