Dunne v. Henman’s Empirical Analysis
875 F.2d 244 · 1989
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Spain v. Rushen (1989), Miller v. Hambrick (1990)
31 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 5003 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky · Johnson v. Righetti · Soto v. United States · Schlanger v. Seamans · Chatman-Bey v. Thornburgh
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prisoner must name the warden of the penitentiary where he is confined as respondent.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The proper forum to challenge the execution of a sentence is the district where the prisoner is confined.”
2 later decisions 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.