Lacey v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably In Re Rameriz (1924), 6 Va. App. 38 - Fitzgerald v. Bass (1988)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 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 People v. . Gillson · The People v. . Marx · Voight v. Wright · Johnston v. . Spicer · Commonwealth v. Brown
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he office of the writ of habeas corpus is not to determine the guilt or innocence of the prisoner. The only issue which it presents is whether or not the prisoner is restrained of his liberty by due process of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gross v. Smyth · Fitzgerald v. Bass
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.