Agee v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Pratts v. Hurley (2004), Hernandez v. Kelly (2006)
4 federal appellate · 91 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 Teague v. Lane · Griffith v. Kentucky · Linkletter v. Walker · Bousley v. United States · William Fiore v. Gregory White Warden
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a claim of improper bindover alleges a potentially viable habeas corpus claim, [although] it must be emphasized that this is a limited exception to the general rule that habeas corpus relief is unavailable when there is an adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[H]abeas corpus, like other extraordinary writ actions, is not available where there is an adequate remedy at law[,]'”
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.