85 Wash. 2d 274 - Proll v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2005
8 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
Relies on Jackson v. Denno · Fay v. Noia · Furman v. Georgia · Medley · Ex Parte Tobias Watkins
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]abeas lies to enforce the right of personal liberty; when that right is denied and a person confined, the [petitioned] court has the power to release him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he question on an application for a writ of habeas corpus is the legality of detention, and the remedy where detention is held illegal is release”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Born v. Thompson“the writ will not issue where it can have no effect on the petitioner's custodial status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Born v. Thompson
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.