Hall v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.2d 820 · 1936
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 1964 · most notably Bishop v. United States (1955), Wojculewicz v. Cummings (1956)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Stallings v. Splain · Archer v. Heath · Fenton v. Aderhold · Van Gorder v. Johnston
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As against collateral attack, the judgment is valid unless the contrary appears in the record, and omission in the record of every step in the proceeding does not overcome the presumption of regularity and warrant release on a writ of habeas corpus.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.