Detrich v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Where one statute deals clearly and specifically with a part of a general subject in a definite manner and is repugnant to the more general provisions of the same or another law covering the same general subject, the former specific act prevails."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chaffin v. Nicosia · Shoemaker v. Dowd, Warden

2. ““The highest court of Indiana has held appellants’ sentences to be valid for the purposes of the habeas corpus petitions heard in the state courts of Indiana. Such petitions were based upon the due process contention here presented and the decision of the Indiana court disposed of this question by finding the judgment sentencing appellants to be now valid and subsisting for the life terms thereby inflicted, and that the continued imprisonment of appellants was not, therefore, without due process of law. The appellants could have presented every contention here urged on appeal to the United States Supreme Court or by petition to that court for writ of certiorari to review the Indiana decision. Not having done so, they had no recourse to the district court in these proceedings. White v. Ragen, 324 U. S. 760 , 65 S. Ct. 978 , 89 L. Ed. 1348 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Shoemaker v. Dowd, Warden