Van Meter v. Sanford’s Empirical Analysis
99 F.2d 511 · 1938
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023
17 federal appellate · 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 Wales v. Whitney · Stallings v. Splain · Johnson v. Hoy
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A prisoner out on parole probably cannot maintain habeas corpus against anyone. No one has his body in custody, or could lawfully arrest him by virtue of his parole status so long as he observes its conditions. A mere moral restraint will not support habeas corpus.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Gladden
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.