Hunt v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2017
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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
Applies 2 U.S.C. § 439 (§ 312 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain · Fay v. Noia · Cuyler v. Sullivan
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be construed in pari materia with other laws dealing with the subject of ethics.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““written opinions of the Attorney General are not controlling. They are merely advisory and, under the statute, such opinions operate only to protect the offi cer to whom it is directed from liability because of any official act performed by such officer as directed or advised in such opinions. [§ 36-15-19, Ala.Code 1975.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`A dissent in a court of last resort is an appeal to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of a future day, when a later decision may possibly correct the error into which the dissenting judge believes the court to have been betrayed.'”
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.