Current v. Amrine’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It will be seen that unless petitioner receives executive clemency, even if he should be given credit for the time he claims to have earned and should receive credit for good time, he is not entitled to his release yet as a matter of right and will not be entitled to it for several years yet. Unless he is paroled or pardoned or his sentence commuted he will have to serve for thirty years from January 22, 1938, less time off for good behavior. The question of whether he is entitled to the good time to which he claimed to be entitled cannot be adjudicated in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus unless a decision of that question in favor of the petitioner would entitle him to his immediate release.” (p. 390.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Current v. Hudspeth